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Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages. He lives in Rome with his wife and two sons. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. January 1958
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Works

Ocean Sea
Ocean Sea
Alessandro Baricco
Silk
Alessandro Baricco
Ocean Sea
Ocean Sea
Alessandro Baricco
Silk
Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco: 9 quotes2 likes

Famous Alessandro Baricco Quotes

“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 book Ocean Sea

Source: Ocean Sea

“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say”

Alessandro Baricco book Silk

Source: Silk

“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”

Alessandro Baricco book Ocean Sea

Source: Ocean Sea

“To die of yearning for something you will never experience”

Alessandro Baricco book Silk

Variant: It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.
Source: Silk

“Reasons get forgotten.”

Alessandro Baricco book Silk

Source: Silk

“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

“She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind”

Alessandro Baricco book Ocean Sea

Source: Ocean Sea

“There is nothing that can, in the dark become true”

Alessandro Baricco book Ocean Sea

Source: Ocean Sea

“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

Source: Ocean Sea: Love, Murder & Betrayal in Almayer Inn

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