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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
―Italo Calvino

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. - Italo Calvino

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“Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.
Polo answers: Without stones there is no arch.”
―Italo Calvino

Source/Notes:
Invisible Cities (1972)

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“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.”
―Italo Calvino

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“The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.”
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Italo Calvino

Born: October 15, 1923

Died: September 19, 1985 (aged 61)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Journalist, novelist, essayist

Bio: Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler.

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“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.”

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