To read a book for the first time in one’s maturity is an extraordinary pleasure, different from (though one cannot say greater or lesser than) the pleasure of having read it in one’s youth.

— Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

https://www.tumblr.com/the-hearth-and-the-wild/715624065178714112/to-read-a-book-for-the-first-time-in-ones

#Reading #Books

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110404749501008916

#reading, #books