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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.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
