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TIL the title of the Italian film, Life is Beautiful, came from a Leon Trotsky quote. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin’s assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything, “life is beautiful”.

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