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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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 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.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
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.
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
