“When a man dies, he has too many other worries to allow any thinking about death.”

— Italo Svevo , book Zeno's Conscience

Quando si muore si ha ben altro da fare che di pensare alla morte.
Source: La coscienza di Zeno (1923), P. 45; p. 55.

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Quando si muore si ha ben altro da fare che di pensare alla morte.

Source: La coscienza di Zeno (1923), p. 67

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