Quote by Italo Calvino
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to

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

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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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Language
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

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Travel
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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

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Books
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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka

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Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

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Books

For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon

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Books

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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Books

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Ive always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. Ive never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from Big Love to romantic comedy, to period film… I cant sit still. – Ginnifer Goodwin

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Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five. – Pam Brown

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