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The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.
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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer born in Cuba in 1923.
* He moved to Italy with his family when he was two years old.
* He studied agronomy and literature at the University of Turin.
* He joined the Italian resistance during World War II.
* He published his first novel, "The Path to the Spider's Nests," in 1947.
* He wrote a number of acclaimed novels, including "The Baron in the Trees" and "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler."
* He died of leukemia in 1985 at the age of 61.
* He is considered one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century.
* His work has been translated into over 30 languages.
* He moved to Italy with his family when he was two years old.
* He studied agronomy and literature at the University of Turin.
* He joined the Italian resistance during World War II.
* He published his first novel, "The Path to the Spider's Nests," in 1947.
* He wrote a number of acclaimed novels, including "The Baron in the Trees" and "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler."
* He died of leukemia in 1985 at the age of 61.
* He is considered one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century.
* His work has been translated into over 30 languages.
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Truth
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Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.
Books
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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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.
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Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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