Luigi Pirandello Quotes

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

Luigi Pirandello
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

Luigi Pirandello
If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Luigi Pirandello
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.

Luigi Pirandello
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
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.

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

Luigi Pirandello
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
But you must play your part, just as I am playing mine. It's all in the game... Each of us must play his part through to the end.

Luigi Pirandello
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
Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality (one for each and never the same for everyone) which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Luigi Pirandello
The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.

Luigi Pirandello
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.

Luigi Pirandello