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Luigi Pirandello
Age: 69 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 28
Died: 1936
Died: December 10
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I am an unrealized character, dramatically speaking.
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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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When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.
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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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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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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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None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
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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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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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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.
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Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?
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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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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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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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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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It is so.When YOU think so
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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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Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
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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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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!
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