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Aveva una sensualità capace di strappare dolcemente, a una a una, le sottili membrane che avvolgono il cuore umano…


Haruki Murakami

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MARIO RIGONI STERN - Fanciulla, non so se sei una dea o una mortale, se sei una dea certo sei Artemide con le tue ancel...
JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT Il cuore è solo una metafora che gli uomini hanno inventato per dire la loro sete dell'impossibile.
ALESSANDRO D'AVENIA Ho visto qualcosa di diverso in te! Sei intrappolata in questa guerra che non ti appartiene, c'è un...
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, èur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino...
WALTER SCOTT La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, pur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino,...
WALTER SCOTT Perché, se esistono gli angeli, a nessuno di loro spetta il compito di impedire che sulla terra avv...
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NEIL GAIMAN - Nulla è eterno, Balbulus. E che cosa c'è di meglio, per le parole, che essere cantate in giro? S...
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STEFANSSON JON KALMAN Il libro si adatta alla mano, si adatta all'individuo. Il modo in cui tieni in mano un libro e giri ...
DON DELILLO [...] Queste difficoltà possono essere risolte nel modo migliore facendo buon viso a cattivo gioco....
ALAN TURING Magari qualcosa, una moneta che cade, un piccolo braccialetto che si impiglia alla maglia di qualcun...
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Nell’epoca ...
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ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Una volta, il mio capitano disse che nella vita si incontrano persone che, crediamo, diventeranno no...
SALLY GARDNER Era come se avessi tremato per tutta la vita, a causa di una cronica corrente sotterranea di paura. ...
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ZADIE SMITH Non puoi ascoltare una poesia senza che questa ti trasformi" mi disse. "L'ascoltarono e li colonizz�...
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FERRUCCIO PARAZZOLI Amare è solo una forma di "ri-conoscimento", nella vita riconosciamo ciò che abbiamo già letto, o...
ALESSANDRO D'AVENIA ...Quando Isabelle alzò lo sguardo ebbe l’impressione che il cuore le si fermasse. Stava risalend...
MARTA SAVARINO Devia la mia mano, quando tento una carezza sulla sua guancia arrossata. «Poche regole, Allison.» ...
GIOVANNA ROMA Noi siamo cinque fratelli. Abitiamo in città diverse, alcuni di noi stanno all'estero: e non ci scr...
NATALIA GINZBURG Non riesco a uscire dalla mia stanza senza prima fissare il portatile di Bright Side, rimasto intatt...
KIM HOLDEN Una mujer debe tener dinero y una habitación propia para poder escribir novelas; y esto, como veis,...
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CESARE PAVESE Per una mente ben organizzata la morte non é che una nuova, grande avventura
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JENNY ERPENBECK Egli [Marx] ha posto il lavoro, il suo avvilimento ingiusto e la sua dignità profonda, al centro de...
ALBERT CAMUS In genere si crede che le donne siano molto quiete: le donne invece provano gli stessi sentimenti de...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Con le sue strade acciottolate, le torri merlate, le gallerie ad arcate, i bovindi e i portici scolp...
ELIF SHAFAK Come sono fortunati gli attori! Loro possono scegliere se recitare in una tragedia o in una commedia...
OSCAR WILDE Una giornata di lavoro è diversa da te, vive al tuo posto una vita pazzesca.
ALDO NOVE La Cadillac Eldorado Brougham del 1957 era l'incarnazione perfetta dell'esibizionismo, tra le macchi...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita ...
ROALD DAHL Una storia cambia continuamente vestito. Una storia cresce e germoglia come un qualcosa di vivo! Que...
CORNELIA FUNKE Hedwig Marty: – Mantieni la tua libertà di coscienza e d’azione, è preziosa e noi ce la...
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RAYMOND CARVER Le parole sopravvivono ai sistemi perchè vivono di loro stesse: sono fuochi di memoria, segnali di ...
SALVATORE NATOLI But my head is splitting in two!"
"It's doing a remarkably neat job since I can't see so much a...
ANNE ELISABETH STENGL Secondo dei dati statistici, trascorriamo in media trenta minuti al giorno a cercare le cose, e chi ...
MARIE KONDō Poi si voltò verso di me, per farmi vedere com'era arrabbiata, e che quella rabbia era per me. Stav...
KURT VONNEGUT Come tutte le cose pure e dotate di una forza prorompente, le parole di Nietzsche potevano portare n...
MILA FOIS E così, nella cassa da morto del sindaco, il bambino, l’uccellino e il costruttore di casse da mo...
MATILDA WOODS Gli uomini che hanno una tempestosa vita interiore e non cercano sfogo nei discorsi o nella scrittur...
CESARE PAVESE Piera, la protagonista di Vuoi vedere che è proprio amore?, è una giovane donna che lavora. Profes...
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LAURELL K. HAMILTON Sarà perché la sera fa un po' freddo ma le parole che scambio con te mi scaldano il cuore. Ti sent...
NAOSHI ARAKAWA Cosa farei senza libri? Ne ho la casa piena, eppure non mi bastano mai. Vorrei avere una giornata di...
DACIA MARAINI Guai a coloro, dissi, che si servono dell'influenza che hanno su di un cuore per rapirgli le semplic...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Una lezione ha un denominatore comune che ci lega l'uno all'altro come in una catena. In fondo alla ...
CECELIA AHERN per troppo tempo l'Afghanistan è stato usato come terreno di scontro nel "Grande Gioco" delle super...
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UMBERTO ECO Camminavo nella sera piena di lillà con tutti i muscoli indolenziti in mezzo alle luci della 27a St...
JACK KEROUAC Voi che vivete sicuri
Nelle vostre tiepide case,
Voi che trovate tornando a sera
Il c...
PRIMO LEVI Una "persona" hace lo que debe, cuando debe y donde debe. Una "bestia" hace lo que le da la gana, cu...
HENRY A. ROJAS L. La gente non sapeva ancora bene come assestarsi di nuovo in una vita normale: le famiglie erano anco...
LUIGI MENEGHELLO Fa parte della nostra natura biologica innamorarci, e di solito lo facciamo persino con la persona p...
SEMIR ZEKI Se si avvelena una mela, non si può ignorare che i suoi
semi presto o tardi faranno nascere u...
ALICE CHIMERA La letteratura è una difesa contro le offese della vita.
CESARE PAVESE Non so se avrò tempo di scrivere altre lettere, perché forse sarò troppo impegnato a cercare a pa...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Con il termine Personal Branding si definisce il processo di creazione e gestione del proprio Brand,...
TOMMASO SORCHIOTTI Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo ch...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Amiamo i mondi di fantasia perché il mondo in cui viviamo non ci soddisfa completamente. Troviamo c...
ALESSIA ESSE Una ardilla es una rata, lo que un unicornio es una mula.
LUIS ALBERTO BRAVO E' la possibilità, non la garanzia, quella che mi fa andare avanti. Una specie di scomessa da parte...
NICHOLAS SPARKS «Proprio un elfo snob doveva toccarmi in sorte?» le rispose divertito. «Allora, non mi rimane alt...
VIVIANA GIORGI Esistono un’infinità di modi per suicidarsi senza morire. Una era guardarti baciarla.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale
e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad og...
EUGENIO MONTALE -Per favore. Come ti chiami?- domandò al gatto. -Senti, io mi chiamo Coraline. Okay?
Il gatto ...
NEIL GAIMAN ... quando un cristiano sente il desiderio di prendere un caffè, non è perché vuole bere un caff�...
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO La prossima volta è il tuo turno con la sedia" disse Ottobre.
"Lo so" mormorò Novembre. Era p...
NEIL GAIMAN [...] non è effetto alcuna in natura, per minimo che e' sia, all'intera cognizion del quale possano...
GALILEO GALILEI ”(…) spesso sto davanti a me stesso come davanti a un estraneo, quando in ore tranquille un e...
ERIC MARIA REMARQUE Fatti una bella risata e metti da parte i tuoi piani. Davvero non ne hai bisogno. Ciò che dovrà ac...
OSHO Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the cultu...
UNA STANNARD Not all journeys seek an end. Some are their own purpose.
UNA MCCORMACK Our internal training team was facing huge demand for training. We specifically went out to find pro...
UNA MCGARVIE Molto spesso sentiamo che ci manca qualcosa e proprio ciò che ci manca ci sembra di ritrovarlo in u...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Tutti e due pensavano ai giovani – i loro fratelli, i loro amici – le cui ossa erano in decompos...
IRèNE NéMIROVSKY que la vida es simplemente una colección de vivencias a las que les ponemos un título, cada una de...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Una ciudad de papel para una chica de papel.
JOHN GREEN Ai miei tempi quando una donna diventava una star del cinema doveva girare in occhiali da sole e fou...
MORDECAI RICHLER Il corpo è la casa del tempo, dentro di lui muoiono gli anni, e con loro noi stessi. Amavo davvero ...
ISABELLA SANTACROCE Una cosa sola (tra le molte) mi pare insopportabile all’artista: non sentirsi più all’inizio.
CESARE PAVESE Está bien", dije, "estoy agradecida de que sea una niña. Y espero que ella sea una tonta... eso es...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD «Serve a poco lottare per ciò che desideri quando quello che desideri continua a spezzarti il cuor...
MOLLY MCADAMS Nadie sabe lo que sucede en la vida de nadie, salvo en la propia. Y cuando le arruinas una parte de ...
JAY ASHER «C'è chi colleziona francobolli, o scatole di fiammiferi» mi ha detto una volta. «Tu collezioni ...
MORDECAI RICHLER A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

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HARUKI MURAKAMI In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr...
HARUKI MURAKAMI When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis...
HARUKI MURAKAMI All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope...
HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they...
HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means...
HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But...
HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh...
HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#...
HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi...
HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all.

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HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died...
HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear...
HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or...
HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ...
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