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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
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Alessandro Baricco
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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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.
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Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
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There is nothing that can, in the dark become true
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As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
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Reasons get forgotten.
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It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
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Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
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This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.
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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.
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