Alessandro Baricco Quotes

• Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Sea, Silence, Forever

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• This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

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  Sea, Land, Doe

  Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.105, Canongate Books

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• It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

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  Grief, Nostalgia, Strange

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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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  Loneliness, Love You, Boredom

  Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.182, Canongate Books

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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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  Sides, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• ... 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.

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  Rainy Day, Destiny, Men

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.

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  Dream, Memories, Light

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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.

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  Mean, Suffering, Use

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• Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

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  Destiny, Arrows, Want

  Alessandro Baricco (2006). “Silk”, p.45, Canongate Books

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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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  Mind, Lasts, Resolution

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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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  Mind, Answers, Want

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• She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

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  Soul, Feelings, Mind

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• To die of yearning for something you will never experience

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  Yearning, Dies, Yearning For Something

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• You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

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  Beautiful, World, Said

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• Reasons get forgotten.

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  Forgotten, Reason

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

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  Children, Men, World

  Alessandro Baricco (2004). “Without Blood”, p.40, Canongate Books

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• There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

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  Dark

  Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Fashion, Destiny, Eight

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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