“The idea that others saw in me one that was not the I whom I knew, one whom they alone could know, as they looked at me from without, with eyes that were not my own, eyes that conferred upon me an aspect destined to remain always foreign to me, although it was one that was in me, one that was my own to them (a "mine," that is to say, that was not for me!)—a life into which, although it was my own, I had no power to penetrate—this idea gave me no rest.” LifeSelfRealityPerception Book:One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand Source: One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
“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.” BelieveRealRealitySeemsTodayTomorrowIllusionYesterday Book:Six Characters in Search of an Author Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“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.” NeedsRealityLife IsPiecesCreationAcceptanceFoolVainSpontaneousIllusoryVery Sad Author:Luigi Pirandello
“If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.” FeelsMayRealityTodayHistoryToo MuchTomorrowProveSurvivalIllusionYesterdayCounting Author:Luigi Pirandello
