Luigi Pirandello Quotes
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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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Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
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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.
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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 knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
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The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.
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We think we understand each other, but we never really do.
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Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
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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.
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It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.
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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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If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.
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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."
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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.
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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 writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
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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 world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.
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The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
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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.
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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.
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Blind yourself, for I am blind.
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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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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
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Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!
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Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
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Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
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We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.
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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.
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Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?
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None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
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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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I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking.
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