Bounds Quote by Luigi Pirandello

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“In his madness he became a terrifying actor!”

— Luigi Pirandello

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

“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

“You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.”

— Luigi Pirandello

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