Top 77 Pirandello Luigi Quotes

#1. Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello Luigi Quotes #5690
#2. THE STEP-DAUGHTER: At present, we are unknown to the public. Tomorrow, you will act us as you wish, treating us in your own manner. But do you really want to see drama, do you want to see it flash out as it really did?

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello Luigi Quotes #44239
#3. I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking ...

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello Luigi Quotes #49881
#4. We get paid to hang out in this beautiful court! Four puppets on a string, just like those two up there (pointing to the two hanging puppets), waiting for someone to jerk them into life and make them talk.

Luigi Pirandello

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#5. We want to live. THE MANAGER (ironically). For Eternity? THE FATHER No, sir, only for a moment ... in you.

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello Luigi Quotes #77727
#6. Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Luigi Pirandello

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#7. You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

Luigi Pirandello

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#8. 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 women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello Luigi Quotes #109586
#9. 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

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#10. The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.

Luigi Pirandello

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#11. Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello Luigi Quotes #238343
#12. 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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#13. And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable solitude.

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#14. It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

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#15. Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

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#16. Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Luigi Pirandello

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#17. What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies. We've got to act a comedy now, dead serious.

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#18. In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

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#19. Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.

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#20. Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

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#21. But a fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.

Luigi Pirandello

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#22. The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

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

Luigi Pirandello

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#24. 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."

Luigi Pirandello

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

Luigi Pirandello

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#26. 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.

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#27. We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

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#28. 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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#29. It is so.When YOU think so

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#30. all these intellectual complications make me sick, disgust me - all this philosophy that uncovers the beast in man, and then seeks to save him, excuse him

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#31. 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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#32. Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

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#33. Ours is an immutable reality which should make you shudder when you approach us if you are really conscious of the fact that your reality is a mere transitory and fleeting illusion, taking this form today and that tomorrow,

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#34. It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

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#35. Have you ever thought to go away and never come back? Run away and lose your tracks, to go to a place far away and start living again, living a new life, only yours, really live? Did you ever think?

Luigi Pirandello

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#36. Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

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#37. ... my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

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#38. 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.

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

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#40. No sir, no. We act that role for which we have been cast, that role which we are given in life. And in my own case, passion itself, as usually happens, becomes a trifle theatrical when it is exalted.

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#41. You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

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#42. 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 it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

Luigi Pirandello

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#43. 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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#44. Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Luigi Pirandello

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#45. 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.

Luigi Pirandello

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#46. 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

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#47. 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.

Luigi Pirandello

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#48. 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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#49. The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

Luigi Pirandello

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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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.

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

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

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#56. 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 tomorrow.

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#57. As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

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#58. Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

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#59. Nowhere! It is merely to show you that one is born to life in many forms, in many shapes, as tree, or as stone, as water, as butterfly, or as woman. So one may also be born a character in a play.

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#60. 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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#61. A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

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#62. None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

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#63. 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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#64. One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

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#65. 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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#66. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve to you.

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#67. Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

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#68. A character, sir, may always ask a man who he is. Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his special characteristics; for which reason he is always "somebody." But a man - I'm not speaking of you now - may very well be 'nobody'.

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#69. 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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#70. When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

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#71. 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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#72. 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

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#73. Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you
if you don't mind my saying so?

Luigi Pirandello

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#74. Blind yourself, for I am blind.

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#75. 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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#76. The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

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#77. ...and here, in this if I always lose myself.

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