Giovanni Verga

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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.

Giovanni Verga

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Original Citation

Verga, Giovanni. I Malavoglia. Italy, 1881, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Verga, Giovanni. The House by the Medlar Tree, translated by Raymond Rosenthal. University of California Press, 1984, ch. 11.