Alessandro Baricco Quotes
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“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. Its a place that does not exist.”
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“It's a strange grief ... to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.”
— Alessandro Baricco
“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.”
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
— Alessandro Baricco
To die of yearning for something you will never experience
— Alessandro Baricco
Do you have children? she asked.
No.
Why?
The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.
— Alessandro Baricco
“There is nothing that can, in the dark become true”
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
“You were dead.'
She said.
'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.”
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
“Sooner or later you'll have to tell the truth to someone.”
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
“You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.”
— Alessandro Baricco
He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation.
— Alessandro Baricco
I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.
— Alessandro Baricco
“Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.”
— Alessandro Baricco
“Only the rustle of those colours waving in the air, impenetrable, lighter than nothingness”
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
In this transparency, the footprints of the little birds spoke with a muffled voice. What they spoke of was entirely without significance, or else something capable of lifting a life off its hinges: there was no way of knowing.
— Alessandro Baricco
There's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air-we all feel it-and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming.
— Alessandro Baricco
“And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.”
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
“Until the last glimmer of daylight.”
— Alessandro Baricco
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
— Alessandro Baricco
No, ogni uomo nobile e saggio ama la sua donna e ne ha cura come io con tutto il cuore amavo la mia, e non importava se era una schiava di guerra.
(Achille, da "Omero, Iliade")
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.
— Alessandro Baricco
“In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.”
— Alessandro Baricco
“Seeing in the air things that the others did not see.”
— Alessandro Baricco
“His life fell like rain before his eyes, a quiet spectacle”
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
“You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth.”
— Alessandro Baricco
He was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.
— Alessandro Baricco
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
— Alessandro Baricco
“As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.”
— Alessandro Baricco
— Alessandro Baricco
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
— Alessandro Baricco
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