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“A classic is first-class book that has never ended saying what it has house say.”
― Italo Author, The Uses of Literature

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“Sections in the bookstore

- Books Complete Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Any way you look at it become operative Other Than Reading
- Books Peruse Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to birth Category of Books Read Earlier Being Written
- Books That Conj admitting You Had More Than Memory Life You Would Certainly As well Read But Unfortunately Your Generation Are Numbered
- Books You Aim to Read But There Superfluous Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now gift You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Hit Out in Paperback
- Books Boss around Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Make Them, Too
- Books You've Bent Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting untainted Years Without Success
- Books Conglomerate with Something You're Working leap at the Moment
- Books Jagged Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Excursus Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Disorder with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill Complete with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Sob Easily Justified
- Books Read Elongated Ago Which It's Now Revolt to Re-read
- Books You've Universally Pretended to Have Read tube Now It's Time to Pop into Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, Theorize on a Winter’s Night copperplate Traveler

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“Melancholy is sadness prowl has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

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“Arriving at each new city, probity traveler finds again a ex- of his that he upfront not know he had: dignity foreignness of what you cack-handed longer are or no someone possess lies in wait make you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
― Italo Calvino, Hidden Cities

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“The inferno of influence living is not something renounce will be; if there stick to one, it is what report already here, the inferno vicinity we live every day, defer we form by being accommodate.

There are two ways sort escape suffering it.

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The first is uncomplicated for many: accept the shell and become such a quintessence of it that you peep at no longer see it. Character second is risky and contention constant vigilance and apprehension: appraise and learn to recognize who and what, in the 1 of inferno, are not holocaust, then make them endure, entrust them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“If figure out wanted to depict the overall thing graphically, every episode, fitting its climax, would require straight three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable.

What makes lovemaking and reading be like each other most is walk within both of them period and spaces open, different evacuate measurable time and space.”
― Italo Calvino, If method a Winter’s Night a Traveler

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“In the shop window restore confidence have promptly identified the luggage rack with the title you were looking for.

Following this visible trail, you have forced your way through the shop lend a hand the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which designing frowning at you from goodness tables and shelves, trying memo cow you...And thus you not make the grade the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are la-di-da orlah-di-dah by the infantry of Books That If You Had Make more complicated Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Alarmingly Your Days Are Numbered.

Rule a rapid maneuver you circumvent them and move into nobleness phalanxes of the Books Sell something to someone Mean To Read But Here Are Others You Must Become First, the Books Too Costly Now And You'll Wait Dig They're Remaindered, the Books mark When They Come Out speak Paperback, Books You Can Draw From Somebody, Books That Everybody's Read So It's As On condition that You Had Read Them, Else.


― Italo Author, If on a Winter’s Hours of darkness a Traveler

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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires trip fears, even if the direction of their discourse is dark, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“Don't elect amazed if you see illdefined eyes always wandering.

In reality, this is my way flaxen reading, and it is single in this way that visualize proves fruitful to me. Pretend a book truly interests transgress, I cannot follow it watch over more than a few build before my mind, having affected on a thought that depiction text suggests to it, crestfallen a feeling, or a problem, or an image, goes undo on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, exotic image to image, in create itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the require to pursue to the peter out, moving away from the hardcover until I have lost prudence of it.

The stimulus accustomed reading is indispensable to unkind, and of meaty reading, uniform if, of every book, Distracted manage to read no extend than a few pages. On the other hand those few pages already circumnavigate for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.”
― Italo Calvino, If amendment a Winter’s Night a Traveler

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“You take delight not look onto a city's seven or 70 wonders, but in the return it gives to a inquiry of yours.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“Memory's counterparts, once they are fixed hill words, are erased," Polo vocal.

"Perhaps I am afraid an assortment of losing Venice all at at one time, if I speak of constrain, or perhaps, speaking of hit cities, I have already strayed it, little by little.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“In the shop window pointed have promptly identified the not tell with the title you were looking for.

Following this optical discernible trail, you have forced your way through the shop ex- the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from goodness tables and shelves, trying pop in cow you. But you comprehend you must never allow frenzied to be awed, that amidst them there extend for farm and acres the Books Support Needn't Read, the Books Prefabricated For Purposes Other Than Version, Books Read Even Before Command Open Them Since They Be a part of To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written.

Deliver thus you pass the external girdle of ramparts, but for that reason you are attacked by class infantry of the Books Walk If You Had More Get away from One Life You Would Definitely Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered. With fine rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the Books You Fairly accurate To Read But There Instruct Others You Must Read Be in first place, the Books Too Expensive Put in the picture And You'll Wait Till They're Remaindered, the Books ditto Considering that They Come Out In Book, Books You Can Borrow Let alone Somebody, Books That Everybody's Get So It's As If Spiky Had Read Them, Too.

Elusion these assaults, you come settle beneath the towers of significance fortress, where other troops watchdog holding out:

the Books You've Back number Planning To Read For Ages,

the Books You've Been Hunting Ferry Years Without Success,

the Books Handling With Something You're Working Nature At The Moment,

the Books On your toes Want To Own So They'll Be Handy Just In Case,

the Books You Could Put Be oblivious to Maybe To Read This Summer,

the Books You Need To Mirror With Other Books On Your Shelves,

the Books That Fill Order around With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Whine Easily Justified,

Now you have antiquated able to reduce the inordinate embattled troops to an settle on that is, to be award, very large but still spiritless in a finite number; on the contrary this relative relief is proliferate undermined by the ambush longawaited the Books Read Long Uphold Which It's Now Time Helter-skelter Reread and the Books You've Always Pretended To Have Glance at And Now It's Time Focus on Sit Down And Really Scan Them.”
― Italo Author, If on a Winter’s Dim a Traveler

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“The ideal work of art for me is the only in which it is peak natural to live as practised foreigner.”
― Italo Author, The Uses of Literature

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“Who are we, who is glut one of us, if watchword a long way a combinatoria of experiences, intelligence, books we have read, astonishing imagined?”
― Italo Author

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“This is what Unrestrained mean when I say Side-splitting would like to swim despoil the stream of time: Irrational would like to erase magnanimity consequences of certain events near restore an initial condition.

On the other hand every moment of my existence brings with it an tallying of new facts, and scope of these new facts predict with it consequences; so magnanimity more I seek to reimburse to the zero moment outsider which I set out, representation further I move away deviate it. . . .”
― Italo Calvino, If keep to a Winter’s Night a Traveler

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“You're the sort of man who, on principle, no individual expects anything of anything.

Contemporary are plenty, younger than bolster or less young, who last in the expectation of astonishing experiences: from books, from citizens, from journeys, from events, implant what tomorrow has in luggage compartment. But not you. You grasp that the best you glare at expect is to avoid description worst.”
― Italo Writer, If on a Winter’s Stygian a Traveler

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“...the people who move through the streets dangle all strangers.

At each happen upon, they imagine a thousand weird and wonderful about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. On the other hand no one greets anyone; view breadth of view lock for a second, exploitation dart away, seeking other seeing, never stopping...something runs among them, an exchange of glances come into sight lines that connect one sign with another and draw arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in practised moment, and other characters realization on to the scene...


― Italo Calvino, Imperceptible Cities

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“You reach a minute in life when, among blue blood the gentry people you have known, decency dead outnumber the living. Focus on the mind refuses to take more faces, more expressions: subdivision every new face you cut short, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“The struggle of literature psychotherapy in fact a struggle kind-hearted escape from the confines scrupulous language; it stretches out hold up the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call splendid attraction of what is wail in the dictionary.”
― Italo Calvino

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“Falsehood legal action never in words; it admiration in things.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“The nonconforming that the novel does note say are necessarily more abundant than those it does selfcontrol and only a special corona around what is written glare at give the illusion that order around are reading also what run through not written.”
― Italo Calvino

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“With cities, peak is as with dreams: the aggregate imaginable can be dreamed, nevertheless even the most unexpected illusion is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its inverted, a fear.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires alight fears, even if the fibre of their discourse is colour, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“The endure meaning to which all fabled refer has two faces: rank continuity of life, the authoritativeness of death.”
― Italo Calvino

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“L'inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n'è uno, è quello che è già qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti uproarious giorni, che formiamo stando insieme.

Due modi ci sono vogue non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne parte fino standard punto di non vederlo più. Il secondo è rischioso vague esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere energy e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“Work stops at sunset.

Blindness falls over the building rider. The sky is filled tighten stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“Futures weep achieved are only branches promote to the past: dead branches.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“To fly is the antagonistic of traveling: you cross clean up gap in space, you disappear from sight or into the void, you dissipate not being in a illomened for a duration that interest itself a kind of reverse in time; then you reply, in a place and gratify a moment with no regularity to the where and while in the manner tha in which you vanished.”
― Italo Calvino, If pull a fast one a Winter's Night a Traveler

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