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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello
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Luigi Pirandello
Age: 69 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 28
Died: 1936
Died: December 10
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Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
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Personally, I don't give a rap for documents for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
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