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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
Luigi Pirandello
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Luigi Pirandello
Age: 69 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 28
Died: 1936
Died: December 10
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