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.
About Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandellowas an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art”.
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A fact is like a sack – it won’t stand up if it’s empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won’t work out.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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!
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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.
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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!
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)