Quotes from Luigi Pirandello

Imparerai a tue spese che nel lungo tragitto della vita incontrerai tante maschere e pochi volti.

my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking...

And the air is new. And everything, instant by instant, is as it is, preparing to appear. [...] This is the only way I can live now. To be reborn moment by moment. [...] I die at every instant, and I am reborn, new and without memories: live and whole, no longer inside myself, but in every thing outside.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve to you.

Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another?

You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

Thus, sir, you see when faith is lacking, it becomes impossible to create certain states of happiness, for we lack the necessary humility. Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist.

And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable solitude.

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.