Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

- 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

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 th…

- Alessandro Baricco

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

- 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 r…

- 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 …

- Alessandro Baricco

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

- Alessandro Baricco

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

- 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…

- Alessandro Baricco