Alessandro Baricco

“beyond the end of the world”

— Alessandro Baricco

“A gilded sound”

— Alessandro Baricco

“an impossible geometry”

— Alessandro Baricco

Reasons get forgotten.

— Alessandro Baricco

“I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.”

— Alessandro Baricco

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

— Alessandro Baricco

“Until the last glimmer of daylight.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“Sooner or later you'll have to tell the truth to someone.”

— Alessandro Baricco

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

— Alessandro Baricco

“- Com'è l'Africa? - gli chiedevano. - Stanca.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“seeing in the air things that the others did not see.”

— Alessandro Baricco

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

— Alessandro Baricco

“Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“And a while later: 'It is a strange sort of pain.' Softly. 'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“Passarono ore, seduti uno accanto all'altro, a parlare e a tacere.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“He said it softly, because he didn’t believe, ever, that the truth was good for anything.”

— Alessandro Baricco

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

— Alessandro Baricco

“And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“Pero no sucedió nada, porque a la vida siempre le falta alguna cosa para ser perfecta”

— Alessandro Baricco

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

— Alessandro Baricco

“It will not have escaped you that this town simulates normality that is completely illusory: every day something happens that one might…

— Alessandro Baricco

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger…

— Alessandro Baricco

“Accadono cose che sono come domande.Passa un minuto oppure anni e poi la vita risponde. Things happen that are like questions. Times…

— Alessandro Baricco

“In this transparency, the footprints of the little birds spoke with a muffled voice. What they spoke of was entirely without significance,…

— 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…

— Alessandro Baricco

“Occasionally, on windy days Hervé Joncour would go down to the lake and spend hours in contemplation of it because he seemed…

— Alessandro Baricco

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny…

— Alessandro Baricco

“Solo a Hélène non riusciva a mentire. -è proprio necessario che parta, Baldabiou? -No. -E allora perché? -Io non posso fermarlo. E…

— Alessandro Baricco

“Mislim na odgovor a u glavi mi tek mrak I stoga ja uzimam taj mrak i stavljam ga u Tvoje ruke. I…

— Alessandro Baricco

Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and…

— Alessandro Baricco

“He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope. He stands up, takes from his…

— Alessandro Baricco

“Sand as far as the eye can see, between the last hills and the sea -- the sea -- in the cold…

— Alessandro Baricco

“Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veličanstveno osećanje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna…

— Alessandro Baricco

“Uvijek me fascinirao taj fenomen sa slikama. Stoje na zidu godinama, a onda, bez ikakvog povoda, ama baš ikakvog padnu, tras, padnu…

— Alessandro Baricco

“…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a…

— Alessandro Baricco

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

— Alessandro Baricco

“It was surprising to consider that in fact there were signs, that is the embers of a voice destroyed by fire.”

— Alessandro Baricco

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

— Alessandro Baricco

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

— Alessandro Baricco

“Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.”

— Alessandro Baricco