“Disease is a conviction, and I was born with that conviction.”
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Italo Svevo
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Zeno's Conscience
La malattia è una convinzione ed io nacqui con quella convinzione.
Source: La coscienza di Zeno (1923), P. 11; p. 14.
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La malattia, è una convinzione ed io nacqui con quella convinzione.
Source: La coscienza di Zeno, Il fumo, p. 16
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