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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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.
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.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
