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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.
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 universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
