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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

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Translation is the art of failure.

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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 5th, 1932

Died: February 19th, 2016

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