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The heart gets tired too; and it falls apart bit by bit, like an old cloth wears out in the wash.

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The worst thing…is to leave your own town, where even the stones know you, and it must break your heart to leave them behind on the road.

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The neighbours had come out like snails after a rainstorm, and all down the road you heard the continuous murmur of people talking from doorway to doorway.

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Giovanni Verga

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Born: September 2, 1840
Died: January 27, 1922 (aged 81)
Bio: Giovanni Carmelo Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia.
Known for:
  1. I Malavoglia (1881)
  2. Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889)
  3. Rosso Malpelo
  4. La Lupa (1896)
  5. Vita dei campi (1881)

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