“Occasionally, on windy days Hervé Joncour would go down to the lake and spend hours in contemplation of it because he seemed to descry, sketched out on the water, the inexplicable sight of his life as it had been, in… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
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.… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Bio je, zapravo, jedan od onih ljudi što vole prisustvovati vlastitom životu, držeći nedoličnom svaku težnju da ga prožive. Uočljivo je kako takvi ljudi… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s that life, at times, gets to you in a way that there’s really nothing more to say.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Uvijek me fascinirao taj fenomen sa slikama. Stoje na zidu godinama, a onda, bez ikakvog povoda, ama baš ikakvog padnu, tras, padnu dole. Vise… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veličanstveno osećanje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna staza i… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope. He stands up, takes from his trunk a… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
