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Book cover for Il viaggio dell'elefante
perché la vita se la ride delle previsioni e mette parole dove noi abbiamo immaginato dei silenzi, e repentini rientri quando pensavamo che non ci saremmo incontrati più.
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Matt Haig
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Luciano Ligabue
“Provami la pressione
dimostramela
mentre sono qua
a non misurare chilometri
a non tenere minuti
a non considerare contorni
a non schivare l'amore”
Luciano Ligabue, Lettere d'amore nel frigo: 77 poesie

Matt Haig
“As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Luciano Ligabue
“L'acqua di novembre
inzuppa i cuori
ancora capaci
del lusso
di non essere
impermeabili”
Luciano Ligabue, Lettere d'amore nel frigo: 77 poesie

Pablo Neruda
“Non t'amo come se fossi rosa di sale, topazio
o freccia di garofani che propagano il fuoco:
t'amo come si amano certe cose oscure,
segretamente, entro l'ombra e l'anima.

T'amo come la pianta che non fiorisce e reca
dentro di sé, nascosta, la luce di quei fiori;
grazie al tuo amore vive oscuro nel mio corpo
il concentrato aroma che ascese dalla terra.

T'amo senza sapere come, né quando né da dove,
t'amo direttamente senza problemi né orgoglio:
così ti amo perché non so amare altrimenti

che così, in questo modo in cui non sono e non sei,
così vicino che la tua mano sul mio petto è mia,
così vicino che si chiudono i tuoi occhi col mio sonno.”
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

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