“The most banal thing, discovered in ourselves, becomes intensely interesting. It is no longer an abstract banality, but an amazing co-ordination between reality and our own individuality.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

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

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