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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.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
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.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
