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Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Luigi Pirandello

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Luigi Pirandello
Age: 69 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 28
Died: 1936
Died: December 10
Author
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Dramatist
Novelist
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Poet
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Luwiji Pirandélo
Luidzhi Pirandello
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Spontaneous
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Vain
Time
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