“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

— Rafael Sabatini, book Scaramouche

This is the opening line of the novel. Sabatini used it as his epitaph.
Variant: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.
Source: Scaramouche (1921), Ch. I: "The Republican"

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Italian writer 1875–1950

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