Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes Luigi Pirandello More Quotes by Luigi Pirandello More Quotes From Luigi Pirandello I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. Luigi Pirandello money wish relationship All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite. Luigi Pirandello respect opposites people Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me. Luigi Pirandello achieve wish house We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too. Luigi Pirandello different listening thinking Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. Luigi Pirandello strange life needs Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived. Luigi Pirandello stupidity done mean There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him. Luigi Pirandello living-my-life knows 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. Luigi Pirandello acceptance reality needs 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. Luigi Pirandello real yesterday believe 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. Luigi Pirandello dream beautiful love One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it. Luigi Pirandello faces writing It is so.When YOU think so Luigi Pirandello thinking 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. Luigi Pirandello identity giving believe In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. Luigi Pirandello dream motivational love 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. Luigi Pirandello yesterday history reality 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. Luigi Pirandello understanding ambition soul Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king. Luigi Pirandello pretending virtue kings 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. Luigi Pirandello work-out heart animal My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it. Luigi Pirandello wells opinion views If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing. Luigi Pirandello harm ifs thinking
