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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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 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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
