Quotes of Luigi Pirandello - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ The history of mankind is the history of ideas. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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! ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

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

- 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

“ Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

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

- Luigi Pirandello

“ I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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

“ I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

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

- Luigi Pirandello

“ Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them! ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ 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

“ Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them! ”

- Luigi Pirandello

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

- Luigi Pirandello
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