Luigi Pirandello - Life Quotes

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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.

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

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

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

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

Luigi Pirandello

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

Luigi Pirandello