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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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.
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.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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.
