Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.