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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.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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.
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.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
