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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
