Vanity stronger than misery, their satisfied waiting for nothing

“The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect; their vanity is stronger than their misery; every invasion of outsiders, whether so by origin or, if Sicilian, by independence of spirit, upsets their illusion of achieved perfection, risks disturbing their satisfied waiting for nothing…” The Leopard.

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