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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
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.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
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.
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.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
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.
