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When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving 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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Luwiji Pirandélo
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