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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
