Alessandro Baricco
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.Collection: Sea
This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.Collection: Sea
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.Collection: Grief
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.Collection: Loneliness
Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to sayCollection: Sides
... 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.Collection: Rainy Day
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Mean
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.Collection: Destiny
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Mind
To die of yearning for something you will never experienceCollection: Yearning
She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mindCollection: Soul
You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.Collection: Beautiful
Reasons get forgotten.Collection: Forgotten
Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.Collection: Children
There is nothing that can, in the dark become trueCollection: Dark
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.Collection: Fashion