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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
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.
