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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
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 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.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
