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“Agli oggetti non importa nulla della nostra vita, ma a noi interessa molto la storia di questi esseri feroci che invadono il nostro mattino. Questi esseri che si svegliano con noi all’alba e che continuano a ripetere crudeli: "Sei ancora qui con noi, ancora una volta viva.”
― Alda Merini, La vita facile: Sillabario

“Il sogno mi percorre come un brivido, divarico le gambe pensando che la luna viene appesa su un unico mondo, quello dei restauri.”
― Alda Merini, La vita facile: Sillabario

“La persona onesta non sa che cosa sia la felicità, perché mentre dorme non si ripete, mentre dorme non sanguina, mentre dorme non lavora, mentre dorme non occupa la ragione, e la ragione è come una vecchia tana entro cui i poeti vanno a dormire.”
― Alda Merini, La vita facile: Sillabario

“Mi balenò in mente il pensiero che dietro ogni copertina si celasse un universo da esplorare e che, fuori di lì, la gente sprecasse il tempo ascoltando partite di calcio e sceneggiati alla radio, paga della propria mediocrità.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“«Il sistema più efficace per rendere inoffensivi i poveri è insegnare loro a imitare i ricchi.»”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Per un attimo, pensai che l'unico vero fantasma è l'assenza causata dalla perdita di chi si ama e mi assalì un senso di precarietà, come se anche la luce limpida di quel mattino fosse un'illusione e potesse svanire da un momento all'altro.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“«Quid pro quo.»
«Quid pro che?»
«Latino, ragazzo. Non esistono lingue morte ma solo cervelli in letargo.»”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“L'avvocato conosceva bene la Storia e sapeva che il futuro si legge nelle strade, nelle fabbriche e nelle caserme molto più chiaramente che sulle pagine dei giornali.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Scriveremo: «Noi mangiamo molte noci», e non: «Amiamo le noci», perché il verbo amare non è un verbo sicuro, manca di precisione e di obiettività. «Amare le noci» e «amare nostra Madre», non può voler dire la stessa cosa. La prima formula designa un gusto gradevole in bocca, e la seconda un sentimento. Le parole che definiscono i sentimenti sono molto vaghe, è meglio evitare il loro impiego e attenersi alla descrizione degli oggetti, degli esseri umani e di se stessi, vale a dire alla descrizione fedele dei fatti.”
― Ágota Kristof, Le grand cahier

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“(If you’re not at all interested in performance, shouldn’t you be in the Python room down the hall?)”
― Scott Meyers, Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14

“Non chiamai Marion. Provai un senso di solitudine, in mancanza di parole migliori, ma in effetti è la parola giusta, una cosa a cui ho sempre cercato di oppormi e da cui sapevo come uscire, ma talvolta anche questo non bastava, e non la chiamai perché non volevo arrendermi, guardando la notte che scendeva.”
― Don DeLillo, Underworld

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

[Inside Out (VH1)]”
― Warren Zevon

“Maturing is realizing how many things don't require your comment.”
― Rachel Wolchin

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“I do love this physical world. I love this physical life with you. And the air and the country. The backyard, the gravel in the back alley. The grass. The cool nights. Lying in bed talking with you in the dark.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I’m a better person than I was before we got together. That’s your doing.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“I just want to live simply and pay attention to what's happening each day.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“You can't fix things, can you, Louis said. We always want to. But we can't.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations.”
― Albert Einstein

“Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.”
― Carlo Rovelli

“There are frontiers where we are learning, and our desire for knowledge burns. They are in the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, at the origins of the cosmos, in the nature of time, in the phenomenon of black holes, and in the workings of our own thought processes. Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our culture is foolish to keep science and poetry separated: they are two tools to open our eyes to the complexity and beauty of the world.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity