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«Do we live in order to love, or do we love in order to live? Maybe, we live in order to find the answer. Anyway, there was one thing William was now sure about: everything in life, at different levels, is a performance, a show, a fiction, an illusion. Living is a search for love during a cruel, fascinating, exhilarating, tragic, ridiculous, touching pantomime that each and every one of us puts up giving more or less attention to details, in the relentless, exhausting effort of making it convincing, for one single reason: we can substantiate an imperative illusion, up to the point of making it real, only if we can share it with someone else».


Laura Capogna was born, lives and works in Rome, Italy. She studied philosophy in order to get some clue about the question “what will I be?” Though the PhD helped her finding a job as teacher, the question still puzzles her from time to time. Meanwhile, she has given up any hope of curing her chronicle “writing disease”. On the contrary, she is firmly determined to reach a specific goal: to pass on the same illness to her pupils.

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