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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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.
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.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
