Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
Luigi PirandelloEvery true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
Luigi PirandelloThe facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
Luigi PirandelloPersonally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
Luigi PirandelloWhen a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.
Luigi Pirandello