Luigi Pirandello Quotes - Page 3

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• I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Art, Hate, Order

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• Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Sleep, Phantoms, Spirit

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello

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• Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Lying, Identity, Fixed

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.34, Luigi Pirandello

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• Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

  Luigi Pirandello

  Play, Tunes, Buffoons

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello

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• Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

  Luigi Pirandello

  Women, Eye, Example

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Writing, Men, Doe

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.11, Luigi Pirandello

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• Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

  Luigi Pirandello

  Interpretation, Shakes, Feels

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• We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mirrors, Hair, Ideas

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• Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Yield, Doe, Pieces

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• Six Characters in Search of an Author.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Character, Six

  Title of play (1921)

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• Blind yourself, for I am blind.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Blind

  Luigi Pirandello (1998). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.34, Ivan R. Dee

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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.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Character, Writing, Alive

  Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in search of an Author, 1921) in Three Plays (1964) p. 64

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