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

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Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

Alessandro Baricco

#Sides Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Sometimes In Life Quotes

“I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.”
“dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!”
“Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”
“In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.”
“I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.”
“Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the motions but there's no passion”
“I didn't apply to different schools. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do.”
“Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is really only pleasing to himself and a small handful of others. The world passes him by and beckons to life and beauty ... to gay and handsome creatures to whom the hearts of their fellow men continue to turn.”

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