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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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 ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.