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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
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.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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.
