Luigi Pirandello

"We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin."

"Lying is the privilege of a few artists and great men."

"There is no greater pain than to remember, in present misery, past happiness."

"The beauty lies in the awareness of the ugliness."

"Each one of us has a private world of experience."

"Science tells us facts about the external world; art shows us truth about the internal world."

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

"To know oneself is the true beginning of wisdom."

"It is right to be content with life, but never with oneself."

"Illusion is the only thing of which one can never get rid."

"In every gesture of ours there is already history."

"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."

"One does not always understand when one is being funny."

"Why do you need to compromise with life?"

"When you desire something with all your heart, you receive signals."

"The task which we undertake is never by us alone."

"I realized that we do not know how to live our own lives."

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."

"I possess something that makes me sober—my solitude."

"Each one of us has his own way of reacting to the world."

"What art offers is space—a certain breathing room for the spirit."

"The absurdity of existence."

"It is easier to die a hero than to live as a human."

"Time moves at a different pace for the heart than for the mind."

"One's wisdom depends much on one's age and experience."

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

"A man who enters a building a certain way will never exit the same way."

"Art creates a coherence and meaning from the chaos of experience."