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“Il senso d'isolamento lo si prova soltanto durante il tragitto da un luogo all'altro, cioè quando non si è in nessun luogo.”
― Italo Calvino

“Avrei potuto anche accontentarmi, ma è così che si diventa infelici.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sono qui perché se mi arrendo questa volta mi arrenderò tutta la vita.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Smith & Wesson

“È uno strano dolore... morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

“Avevo sempre pensato che le stazioni ferroviarie fossero tra i pochi lughi magici rimasti al mondo. I fantasmi dei ricordi e degli addii vi si mescolavano con l'inizio di centinaia di viaggi per destinazioni lontane, senza ritorno.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world.
- Watson.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Final Problem and Other Stories

“So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.
- Sherlock Holmes.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Our planet is poorly equipped for delight.
One must snatch gladness from the days that are.
In this life
it's not difficult to die.
To make life
is more difficult by far.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

“I am too young and I've loved you too much.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov