Luigi Pirandello Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.”
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“My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.”
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“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.”
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“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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“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.”
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“Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.”
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“When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.”
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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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“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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“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
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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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“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
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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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“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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“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.”
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“The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.”
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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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“It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.”
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“We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.”
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“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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“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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“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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“None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.”
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“One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.”
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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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“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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“I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking...”
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“As soon as one is born, one starts dying.”
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“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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