Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934.
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“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
Luigi Pirandello
“I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.”
“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.”
“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Women are like dreams - they are never the way you would like to have them”
“The history of mankind is the history of ideas.”
“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.”
“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.”