Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.
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Quotes by Luigi Pirandello
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I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory, a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.
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We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.
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The more arms and legs we have, the richer we are.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
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Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!
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So It Is (If You Think So)
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The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
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Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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