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to pile stories upon stories

"The novel I would most like to read at this moment," Ludmilla explains, "should have as its driving force only the desire to narrate, to pile stories upon stories, without trying to impose a philosophy of life on you, simply allowing you to observe its own growth, like a tree, an entangling, as if…

—p.92 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 5 (91) by Italo Calvino
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something else that is not present

"Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid, material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, be…

—p.72 4 (68) by Italo Calvino
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penumbra

the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions.

—p.68 4 (68) by Italo Calvino
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of which he is the principal curator and possessor

[...] The wind sped through the morning sky, transporting soft clouds; the clouds arrayed themselves in cirrus festoons, then in cumuli; toward nine-thirty there was a rain shower, and the pluviometer collected a few centiliters; there followed a partial rainbow, of brief duration; the sky darkened…

—p.67 Leaning from the steep slope (54) by Italo Calvino
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a darkness deeper than the night's

The sea urchin, the little veil, the two strangers: the color black continues to appear to me in circumstances bound to attract my attention, messages that I interpret as a summons from the night. I realize that for a long time I have tended to reduce the presence of darkness in my life. The doctor…

—p.61 Leaning from the steep slope (54) by Italo Calvino