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Which Quotes by Italo Calvino
- A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
- I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.
- Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
- The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an…
- Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually…
- A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
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