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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say"

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MORE QUOTES BY Italo Calvino

“The minute you set foot in this world of ours”

Italo Calvino

“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions”

“Every time I chose to act out a dream, I disfigured it, weakening the memory of another.”

“The human race is a zone of living things that should not be limited.”

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