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First Quotes by Italo Calvino
- 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.
- The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that…
- 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…
- The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we…
- For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.…
- I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has…
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