More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
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?
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
