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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
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.
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.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
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.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
