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Book Quotes by Italo Calvino
- A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
- Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
- A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
- Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you…
- Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make…
- You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it…
- The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of…
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
- What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure…
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is…
- Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you…
- There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library…
- You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live…
- Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
- It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
- Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need…
- A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
- Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books…
- I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
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