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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
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 harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
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.
