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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
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.
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.
