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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
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.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
