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A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.
Alejo Carpentier
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Alejo Carpentier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: April 24
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Musicologist
Novelist
Writer
Lausanne VD
Alejo F. Carpentier y Valmont
Alekho Karpentér
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont
Alekho Karpenter
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Moth
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