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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.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
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.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
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.
