Italo Calvino Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Lying, Order

• In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

  Italo Calvino

  Love, Matter, Pleasure

• What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.

  Italo Calvino

  Disappointment, Believe, Book

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.4, Random House

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