Lacci Quotes

“There is a distance that cannot be measured in kilometers or even in light years; it's the distance born from change.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Perché niente è piú radicale dell’abbandono, ma niente è piú tenace di quei lacci invisibili che legano le persone le une alle altre. E a volte basta un gesto minimo per far riaffiorare quello che abbiamo provato a mettere da parte.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“You say it’s because you want to be a man of your times. You call this frenzy of yours involvement. Oh, sure, you’re involved, you take part, you take part a little too much. But really you’re a passive man, you pick up words and ideas from books that appeal to the masses and you put them in play, you’re entirely subject to the conventions and trends of people who matter, whom you quickly hope to associate with.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“I savored the fortune of being, for a good seventy-four years, a happy transmutation of the sidereal substance that roils in the furnace of the universe, a fragment of living thinking matter, without too many aches and pains to boot, and barely scathed, purely by chance, by misfortune.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“È difficile soffrire in modo simpatico”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“لاحظت من جديد، وبقوة أكبر، أنني هش ويمكن أن أتحطم.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“All the time I had lived with them I’d been a distracted father who didn’t feel the need to know them in order to recognize them.”
― Domenico Starnone, Ties

“Disse: mostraci come fai, e mi resi conto che anche lei, pur prendendo in giro il fratello, stava cercando, con quella storia dei lacci, la prova che non ero un signore qualsiasi cui bisognava attribuire il ruolo di padre, ma qualcosa in più. Chiesi: volete che adesso, qui, vi faccia vedere come mi allaccio le scarpe? Sì, disse Anna. [...] Ma io sapevo che quell’allacciare e slacciare ci aveva riavvicinati, o forse ci aveva portati a una distanza che, da quando erano nati, non era mai stata così breve.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Me di cuenta tarde de que los demás me intrigaban ni más ni menos de lo que me habías intrigado tú.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“vivere com'era bello, com'era bello essere vissuti”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Non sarai mai quello che vuoi ma quello che capita”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Nos dias seguintes me senti realmente bem. Saboreei a sorte de ser há setenta e quatro anos uma transmutação feliz de substância sideral que borbulha nas fornalhas do universo, um fragmento de matéria viva e pensante sem muitas indisposições e por puro acaso com uma escassa experiência de infortúnios.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“As soon as you make an effort to say something clearly, you realize that it’s only clear because you’ve simplified it.”
― Domenico Starnone, Ties

“Kiekviena istorija baigiasi akligatviu, žmogus visada atsiduria tokioje padėtyje kaip ši. <...> kiekviena istorija anksčiau ar vėliau atsimuša į paskutinį žodį.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Daugelio metų krizė mus išmokė: kad galėtume gyventi kartu, turime garsiai pasakyti kur kas mažiau dalykų nei nutylėti.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“ـ الأربطة الوحيدة التي وضع والدانا لها اعتبارًا هي تلك التي عذب بها كل منهما الآخر طوال حياته .”
― Domenico Starnone, أربطة

“فى كل الاحوال ينتهى الامر بان يؤذى كل منا اطفاله ، ومن ثم يجب ان نتوقع انهم سيتسببون لنا بالم اكبر”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“هناك مسافة لا يمكن قياسها بالكيلومترات ، و لا حتى بالسنوات الضوئية ، هى المسافة التى يسببها التغير”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“ho rincorso non tanto la coscienza scritta degli autori – erano spesso nomi dimenticati, pagine invecchiate, concetti ormai fuori dai consumi culturali contemporanei – quanto piuttosto la mia coscienza, ciò che in passato m’era sembrato giusto per me, mia convinzione, mio pensiero, mio io in divenire.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Come sei buono. Come siete buoni tutti con le donne. Avete tre grandi obiettivi nella vita: scoparci, proteggerci. farci male.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“well-known writer, the kind who enjoys a certain renown all his life and then, as soon as he dies, is never read again.”
― Domenico Starnone, Ties

“It’s hard to suffer politely.”
― Domenico Starnone, Ties

“Was I the scrawls on the books I’d read, was I the sheets of paper crammed with titles and quotes”
― Domenico Starnone, Ties

“Either we change our step—you conclude—rediscovering the joys of starting out, or we condemn ourselves to the dread of normality.”
― Domenico Starnone, Ties

“We proceed believing that the movement of our legs is our own, but it isn’t so; there’s a small crowd that’s shaped us, moving up those steps with us, and the steadiness of our legs simply stems from conformity.”
― Domenico Starnone, Ties

“you said that your father had wrapped barbed wire around your mother, and that every time you saw a sharp clump of iron pierce her flesh you suffered.”
― Domenico Starnone, Ties

“C’è una distanza che conta più dei chilometri e forse degli anni luce, è la distanza dei cambiamenti.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Vanda'nın söylediği ya da yaptığı şeyler neredeyse her zaman onun ne hakkında sustuğunu gösterir.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Mektuplar öyle yoğun bir acının izlerini taşıyordu ki o acı serbest kalsa odayı kat edebilir, oturma odasına taşabilir, kapalı kapılardan geçebilir, sarsıp uykusundan uyandıracağı Vanda'yı haykırmaya ya da avazı çıktığı kadar şarkı söylemeye sevk ederek ele geçirebilirdi.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci

“Geri kalan günlerde kendimi gerçekten de iyi hissettim. Koskoca yetmiş dört yıl boyunca evrenin koca fırınında kaynayan yıldızsal bir maddenin bahtiyar bir transmutasyonu olmanın, fazla ağrısı sızısı olmayan ve tamamen tesadüf eseri olarak büyük talihsizlikler yaşamamış, canlı ve düşünen bir madde parçacığı olmanın zevkini tattım.”
― Domenico Starnone, Lacci