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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials

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Natalia Ginzburg
Age: 77 †
Born: 1914
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: October 8
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Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.
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Over my real sorrows I never weep.
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England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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