Luigi Pirandello Quotes

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• We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Thinking, Listening, Different

  Luigi Pirandello (1985). “Three plays”, Methuen Drama

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

  Luigi Pirandello

  Relationship, Money, Wish

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

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  Life, Needs, Strange

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• There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

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  Living My Life, Knows

  Luigi Pirandello (1954). “Six characters in search of an author: Translated by Frederick May”

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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.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Real, Believe, Yesterday

  Luigi Pirandello, John Linstrum, Joseph Farrell (2004). “Six characters in search of an author”, A&C Black

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• Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

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  Kings, Virtue, Pretending

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• We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

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  Thinking

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.15, Jester House Publishing

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• Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

  Luigi Pirandello

  House, Wish, Achieve

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• All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Respect, Opposites, People

  "Three Plays".

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• 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.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Acceptance, Reality, Needs

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• It is so.When YOU think so

  Luigi Pirandello

  Thinking

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• Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mean, Stupidity, Done

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

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  Thinking, Harm, Ifs

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Luigi Pirandello (2017). “Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba”, p.310, Princeton University Press

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• We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

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  Wall, Moving, Waiting

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.9, Luigi Pirandello

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• Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

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  Sharks, Life Sucks, Life Is Like

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

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  Character, Giving, Independence

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.49, Jester House Publishing

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

  Luigi Pirandello

  Views, Opinion, Wells

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• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

  Luigi Pirandello

  Kings, Woe, Pope

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.36, Luigi Pirandello

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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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  Love, Motivational, Dream

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, 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.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Reality, Yesterday, History

  "Six Characters In Search of an Author".

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• Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Believe, Giving, Identity

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• Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Ambition, Understanding, Soul

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Death, Dying, Born

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.46, Luigi Pirandello

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

  Luigi Pirandello

  Life, Secret, Concepts

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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