Luigi Pirandello
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 almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 June 1867
CountryItaly
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
We think we understand each other, but we never really do.
I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking...
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
As soon as one is born, one starts dying.
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.
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.
Blind yourself, for I am blind.