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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
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.
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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.
