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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
