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Luigi Pirandello

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

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02Undated

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.

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03Undated

...and here, in this if I always lose myself.

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04Undated

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

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05Undated

Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you -- if you don't mind my saying so?

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06Undated

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyse it, just as if happiness were his right.

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07Undated

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.

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08Undated

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though.

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09Undated

You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

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10Undated

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

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11Undated

When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.

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12Undated

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

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13Undated

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

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14Undated

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

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15Undated

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

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16Undated

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

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17Undated

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

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18Undated

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

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19Undated

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

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20Undated

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

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21Undated

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

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22Undated

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

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23Undated

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

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24Undated

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

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