Quotes by Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli

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“Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.”

“A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.”

“I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.”

“I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.”

“Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.”

“This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.”

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“On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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“Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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“Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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“I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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“I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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“A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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“You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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“This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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“I see the pain of miserly love in young people,' I say. 'You don't have that kind of melancholy on your face. But I'm careful not to step on your feet when I speak with you. It's not like dancing. ...”
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
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