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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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.
