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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
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.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
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.
