101 Quotes by Alessandro Baricco

First is my name, second those eyes, third a thought, fourth the coming of the night, fifth those mangled bodies, sixth is hunger, seventh is horror, eighth the specters of madness, ninth is meat, and tenth is a man who watches me but does not kill me.

In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.

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

Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself.

Stava pensando alla misteriosa permanenza dell’amore, nella corrente mai ferma della vita.

Quando si spense la seconda lampadina, entrambi si girarono a guardarla, per un attimo. Sembrava quando si aspettano le stelle cadenti, nelle notti d’estate.

Ognuno di noi, ha bisogno di sogni per vivere.

Per favore, Novecento, solo le note normali, okay?”.

Como por un singular precepto, dondequiera que fuese, aquel hombre andaba en una soledad incondicional.