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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
