Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“We get paid to hang out in this beautiful court! Four puppets on a string, just like those two up there (pointing… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“No name. No memory today of yesterday’s name; of today’s name, tomorrow. If the name is the thing; if a name in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
“The capacity for deluding ourselves that today's reality is the only true one, on the one hand, sustains us, but on the other, it… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become:… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since,… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
“This is the real drama for me; the belief that we all, you see, think of ourselves as one single person: but it's not… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
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!… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
“Voi credete di conoscervi se non vi costruite in qualche modo? E ch'io possa conoscervi, se non vi costruisco a modo mio? E voi… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
“trovarsi davanti a un pazzo sapete che significa? trovarsi davanti a uno che vi scrolla dalle fondamenta tutto quanto avete costruito in voi, attorno… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval,… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share
