Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. He is best known for his novel "Oceano Mare" and his play "Seta". He has also written several other novels, short stories, plays and essays, and has been awarded numerous literary prizes. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alessandro Baricco on love, education, life.
This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist. — Alessandro Baricco
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
Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say — Alessandro Baricco
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. — Alessandro Baricco
To die of yearning for something you will never experience — Alessandro Baricco
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last. — Alessandro Baricco
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. — Alessandro Baricco
She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind — Alessandro Baricco
You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left. — Alessandro Baricco
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future. — Alessandro Baricco
Reasons get forgotten. — 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. — Alessandro Baricco
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. — Alessandro Baricco
There is nothing that can, in the dark become true — Alessandro Baricco
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion. — Alessandro Baricco
... 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. — Alessandro Baricco
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. — Alessandro Baricco
Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children. — Alessandro Baricco
Life Lessons by Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco's work emphasizes the importance of living life with passion and curiosity, and of taking risks in order to experience something new.
He encourages readers to embrace the unknown and to be open to the possibilities of life.
By celebrating the beauty of the unknown, Baricco teaches us to be brave and to appreciate the journey of life, rather than simply the destination.
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