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.

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Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

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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.

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We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

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Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.

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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

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The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

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Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

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