Inspirational Quotes by Italo Calvino — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the”

“As for the character of Andria's inhabitants, two virtues are worth mentioning: self-confidence and prudence. Convinced that every innovation in the city influences the sky's pattern, before taking any decision they calculate the risks and advantages for themselves and for the city and for all worlds.”

“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book?”

“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”

“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”

“I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun, consuming and digesting. Under the thatched arbor of a restaurant on a river-bank, where Olivia had waited for me, our teeth began to move slowly, with equal rhythm, and our eyes stared into each other's with the intensity of serpents'—serpents concentrated in the ecstasy of swallowing each other in turn, as we were aware, in our turn, of being swallowed by the serpent that digests us all, assimilated ceaselessly in the process of ingestion and digestion, in the universal cannibalism that leaves its imprint on every amorous relationship and erases the lines between our bodies and sopa de frijoles, huachinango a la vera cru-zana, and enchiladas.”

“Sections in the bookstore”