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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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?
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.