Alessandro Baricco Quotes
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.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
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Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
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If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
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I’m not as intellectual as my daughter. She says bigger words than I … I don’t even know what they mean… But she’s so amusing to me and it’s wonderful to be around her.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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I don't feel naked around you anymore.
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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.
