“Blind yourself, for I am blind.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Famous Luigi Pirandello Quotes
“There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.”
Source: Six characters in search of an author: Translated by Frederick May
Source: The late Mattia Pascal
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.”
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
“I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.”
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Source: The late Mattia Pascal
“If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“As soon as one is born, one starts dying.”
Source: Henry IV
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Source: Henry IV
“Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.”
“My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.”
Source: Henry IV
“It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Source: Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“We think we understand each other, but we never really do.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!”
Source: Henry IV
“When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.”
“None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.”
Source: Henry IV
“One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.”
“The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.”
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
“The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.”
Source: Henry IV
“Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?”
“Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.”