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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
