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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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.
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?
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
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.
