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Mattia Pascal is the exemplary witness of this absurd human condition of being a prisoner of social masks "as husband, as wife, as father, as brother, and so on," "of that whole burden of laws, of duties, of words," against which "life" struggles incessantly, but uselessly. The most internal, most profound, and authentic feeling that man has of life and of himself, the spark stolen from the sun by Prometheus to give as a gift to men, will never find "reality outside of itself." "Outside of the law and outside of those particularities, be they happy or sad, by which we are ourselves... it is not possible to live."