“Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.” WayNeedsPersonsStillsSoulBodySpiritSocialUnderstandingImpossibleAchieveBecomingAmbitionOrdinarySlaveryIntimateTrappedCommerceUnderstanding Each Other Book:The late Mattia Pascal Source: The late Mattia Pascal
“We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.” PeopleWayLittlesIdeasMatterHairFoolMirrorsAgingCheat Author:Luigi Pirandello
“Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.” IfsKnowsWayGivingBelieveI CanFormIdentitySucceedMy WayKnow MeConstructsBelieve You Can Author:Luigi Pirandello
“Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.” WayDreamWomen Author:Luigi Pirandello
