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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
