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Those who understood, in fact, say: 'i mustn't do this, i mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! splendid! but at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. at the very least it means you have never lived.

-Luigi Pirandello

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Luigi Pirandello

Those who understood, in fact, say: 'i mustn't do this, i mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! splendid! but at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. at the very least it means you have never lived.

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I said anything i wanted because i don't believe in children i don't believe in childhood. i don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'oh you mustn't tell them that. you mustn't tell them that.' you tell them anything you want. just tell them if it's true. if it's true you tell them.

A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra ii. just as a point of practice, i say, kill yourself. a woman calls and says her kids won't behave. without missing a beat, i tell her, kill yourself. a man calls to say his car won't start. kill yourself. a woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. kill yourself. she asks, "isn't this 555-1327? is this the moorehouse cineplex? i say, kill yourself. kill yourself. kill yourself.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. parents tell you how to think. schools tell you how to think. tv. religion. and then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. nobody sets the rules but you. you can design your own life.

I wish i could do whatever i liked behind the curtain of “madness”. then: i’d arrange flowers, all day long, i’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, i would laugh as much as i feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “poor thing, she’s crazy!” (above all i would laugh at my own stupidity.) i would build my world which while i lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. the day, or the hour, or the minute that i lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

"don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anybody else." don't believe me, because what i say is only truth for me. don't believe yourself, because most of the time what you tell yourself is only truth for you - especially when you tell yourself that you're not good enough, you're not intelligent enough, you're not beautiful enough - when you reject yourself before anybody else can reject you. and don't believe anybody else, because what they say is only truth for them.

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