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. — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“When loneliness mastered him he would go up to the cemetery...The rest of his time was taken up with a liturgy of habits that succeeded in warding off sadness.” — 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
