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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
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.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
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.
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.
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.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
