Luigi Pirandello Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
• Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
• My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.
• We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.
• You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you…
• It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.
• A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into…
• You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.
• Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
• Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without…
• 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…
• Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
• 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…
• 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…
• We think we understand each other, but we never really do.
• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
• Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
• When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

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