“What doesn't slumber under the shells of us all? One just needs courage to uncover it and be oneself. Or at least to discuss it. There isn't enough discussion in the world.”

Source: The Beach (1941), Chapter 4, p. 25

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Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908–1950

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