Alessandro Baricco Quotes
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To die of yearning for something you will never experience.
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This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.
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Reasons get forgotten.
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Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
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It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
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As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.
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Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.
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Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
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There is nothing that can, in the dark become true.
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I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
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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.