Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.Italo Calvino
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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