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1 " Two little provincial intellectuals, that was what they were, and that is the dreariest and oddest thing that can exist on earth. "
― Natalia Ginzburg , All Our Yesterdays
2 " Fanfares of trumpets usually announced only small, futile things, it was a way fate had of teasing people. You felt a great exaltation and heard a loud fanfare of trumpets in the sky. But the serious things of life, on the contrary, took you by surprise, they spurted up all of a sudden like water. "
3 " All these were things that at present seemed like a dream, because Fascism was in power and Fascism wanted people to let themselves crumble away. "
4 " And they laughed a little and were very friendly together, the three of them, Anna, Emanuele and Giustino; and they were pleased to be together, the three of them, thinking of all those who were dead, and of the long war and the sorrow and noise and confusion, and of the long, difficult life which they saw in front of them now, full of all the things they did not know how to do. "
