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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.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
