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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
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 take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
