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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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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. – Italo Calvino

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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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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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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. – George Borrow

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Medicine for the soul. – Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. – Aharon Appelfeld

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Books
[W]omen and books should be looked at daily. – Dutch Proverb

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