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Sicily
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La Sicilia è un mondo a sé che nessuno pensa di dover scoprire perché tutti credono di avere già scoperto.
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― Il capitano catanese
― Il capitano catanese
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Nowhere has truth so short a life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, annihilated by imagination and self-interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves on the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.
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― The Leopard
― The Leopard
