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“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. 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.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”
― Dave Hickey, Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy

“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”
― Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault

“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”
― Alain De Botton, On Love