Luigi Pirandello
Playwright
1867-06-28 – 1936-10-12
Quotes by Luigi Pirandello
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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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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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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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...and here, in this if I always lose myself.
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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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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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...and here, in this if I always lose myself.
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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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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
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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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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
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Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or Pope!
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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
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The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
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A fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.
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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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My opinion is a view I hold until-well-until I find out something that changes it.
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
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Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.
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