Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Il
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What is that?
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"" 1 9th-Century Europe""
Is it interesting?

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- Quite.
- Let me read it after you.

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Look, I understand how you feel,
but you have to admit...

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we're not so badly off here.
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Granted: no more mixed marriages.
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That's actually not too--
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No phone listings,
no public schools...

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and that, I must agree, is serious.
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So is being barred
from the armed forces.

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No obituaries in the newspapers...
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and now, no servants.
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But apart from that...
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you'll admit we can still live,
move about, own property.

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- In effect, be a citizen.
- Third-class.

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Third-class, if you will,
but still a citizen who can...

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enjoy his basic rights.
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Such as?
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There have always been
few enough rights for anyone.

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We weren't the first
to be persecuted. That is true.

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But we all kept quiet
as long as we weren't hit.

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Nevertheless...
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I don't think you should
keep yourself so isolated...

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or refuse to come to the phone.
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It's very bad for you
to segregate yourself.

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For your poor brother
and sister too...

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because, naturally,
they imitate you.

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Like giving up the Tennis Club.
They're not expelling you.

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Nor me from
the Chamber of Commerce.

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Don’t you see, good God,
that you’re playing into the hands...

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of the very people
who want us to stop being...


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