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Luigi Pirandello, born on June 28, 1867, and died on December 10, 1936, was an Italian dramatist. His works are known for their unique style and profound philosophical insights, profoundly influencing 20th-century drama.

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Famous Luigi Pirandello Quotes

“Ma perché si dev'essere così? Mascherati! Mascherati! Mascherati! Me lo dica lei! Perché, appena insieme, l'uno di fronte all'altro, diventiamo tutti tanti pagliacci?”

Men Fiction Masks

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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.”

Knows Men Wells Heart Faces Goes On Dignity Face To Face Unspeakable Personal Dignity

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Whole Lying Values Father Understanding Trouble Special Whole World Conception Translate Listen To Me

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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!”

Men Character Death Dies Literature Born Laughing Creation Luck Instruments

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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.”

Men Life Giving Littles Doe Values Levels Knowing Plant Sake Beast Very True True Man Plants And Life

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“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!”

Knows Men Looks Enough Able Young Women He Man Shame Misery Affair Casual Unspeakable

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“Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.”

Knows Men Heart Certain Dignity Fellows Guilt Every Man Secrecy

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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.”

Ifs Men Happiness

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“Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.”

Men Should Reason Suffering Causes Bears Should Have Anxious Unjust Introspective

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“The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.”

Men Writing Doe Dies Creation He Man Instruments

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“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."”

Men Feels Looks Doe Eye Turns Women Cases Example Blind Missions Her Eyes Glances Inviting Tantalizing

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About the Author

Born: June 28, 1867
Died: December 10, 1936
Known for: Dramatist
Quotes: 103

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