You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

Luigi Pirandello
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When you are pulled away from what you love, something that has happened to me has happened to me. If I had not had my life interrupted, I would have had the life that I could have lived.

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