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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
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 universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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.
