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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Источник: The Uses of Literature
Page 44.
Источник: Invisible Cities (1972)
Контексте: With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
“There is no language without deceit.”
Источник: Invisible Cities
“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
Источник: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
Источник: The Uses of Literature
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”
Источник: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
Источник: Invisible Cities
“I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.”
Источник: Six Memos For The Next Millennium
“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
Источник: Invisible Cities
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.”
Источник: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
Источник: Invisible Cities
Источник: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Источник: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
Источник: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Источник: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler