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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30728.Numbers_in_the_Dark_And_Other_Stories?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168104758m/30728.gif" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30728.Numbers_in_the_Dark_And_Other_Stories?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/155517.Italo_Calvino">Italo Calvino</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12441332?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>"And Ida is one of those girls who run into you and immediately start telling you their life stories and what they think about things, even though they hardly know you: girls with no secrets, except for things that are secrets to them too; and even for those secrets they'll find words, everyday words that sprout effortlessly, as if their thoughts budded ready-clothed in a tissue of words." <br/> <br/>"Only in a superficial sense can lies be said to exclude the truth; you will be aware that in many cases lies - the patient's lies to the psychoanalyst, for example - are just as revealing as the truth, if not more so; and the same will be true for those who eventually interpret our message...the lie is the real information we have to pass on." <br/> <br/>"She's a nice girl, Mariamirella; by nice I mean she understands the difficult things I say and immediately makes them easy. I'd like to give her a kiss, but then I think that if I kissed her I'd think of kissing the thought of her and she'd think of being kissed by the thought of me, so I do nothing about it." <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/629189?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>