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“One reads alone, even in another's presence.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping...something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with another and draw arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on to the scene... ”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Each day a day goes by.”
― Carlo Goldoni

“Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.”
― Carlo Goldoni, Pamela nubile

“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch