A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
More Quotes from Italo Calvino:
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.Italo Calvino
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Italo Calvino
You are at the wheel of your car, waiting at a traffic light, you take the book out of the bag, rip off the transparent wrapping, start reading the first lines. A storm of honking breaks over you....
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Italo Calvino
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