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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
