Quotes from Alessandro Baricco

He was a thread of gold running straight into the woof of a carpet woven by a madman.

Tutto il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.

Per tutto il tempo che concesse al destino, solo ombre e silenzi furono ciò che quel singolare palcoscenico lasciò filtrare

Leemos libros porque nos cambian la vida, porque nos conducen a la verdad. Leemos libros porque aprendemos muchas cosas. Pero escribimos libros con otra idea. Cuando escribimos, lo que hacemos es elegir entre lo más raro que hay en nuestro universo y entre lo más querido que hay en nuestro ánimo.

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.

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.

... 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.

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

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.

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

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

To die of yearning for something you will never experience