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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.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
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 universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
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.
