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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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.
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.
