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Luigi Pirandello was 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. June 1867 – 10. December 1936
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Works

Six Characters in Search of an Author
Henry IV
Henry IV
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello: 7   quotes 1   like

Famous Luigi Pirandello Quotes

“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

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”

Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author

“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.”

Luigi Pirandello

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

“It is so. When YOU think so”

Luigi Pirandello

Title of play (1916); also translated as It Is So, If You Think It Is.
Variant: So It Is (If You Think So)

“If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.”

Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author

“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.”

Luigi Pirandello

The Pleasure of Honesty (1917), trans. William Murray http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561560170/Behavior_Anyone_can_be_heroic_from_time_to_time_but_a.html

“Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!”

Luigi Pirandello Henry IV

Henry IV (1922), trans. Edward Storer http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561557863/Diplomacy_Woe_to_him_who_doesn't_know_how_to_wear_his.html

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