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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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.
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.
