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Luigi Pirandello
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Italian playwright.
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Science Quotes by Luigi Pirandello (1)
A fact is like a sack which won’t stand up if it’s empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.
— Luigi Pirandello
Character, The Father, in play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), Act 1, by Luigi Pirandello. Collected in John Gassner, Burns Mantle, A Treasury of the Theatre (1935), Vol. 2, 507.
See also: | Cause (49) | Empty (2) | Exist (4) | Fact (139) | Reason (69) | Sentiment (2) | Stand (3)