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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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.
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 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.
