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

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

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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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. – Italo Calvino

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Legacy
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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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Cats
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A book that is shut is but a block. – Thomas Fuller

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Books

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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Books

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Books

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

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Books

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If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues. – Ariel Sharon

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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. – Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726

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