A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
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