The Celestial Hunter Quotes

“The biggest danger in life is that the food of humans is all made of souls.”
― Roberto Calasso, Il cacciatore celeste

“Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.”
― Roberto Calasso, Il cacciatore celeste

“The wild animal loves pure men because those men, at one time, were themselves prey.”
― Roberto Calasso, Il cacciatore celeste

“Some would sing as they killed the bear, so that the bear, while dying, could say: "I like that song.”
― Roberto Calasso, Il cacciatore celeste

“Pure is that which stands out against a background, which has a profile, which can thus become a target.”
― Roberto Calasso, Il cacciatore celeste

“The sky, the first mnemotechnical order. Its vault became the house of the past, an unsullied museum. Indispensable stories glimmered each night - or remained temporarily concealed behind a veil of cloud.”
― Roberto Calasso, Il cacciatore celeste

“Contact with the skin of a dead animal made it possible to communicate with all other animal species. It was the lingua franca of metamorphosis.”
― Roberto Calasso, Il cacciatore celeste

“They used to say that the universe is made essentially of hexagonal rock crystals, also — and especially — where it is darker and more shapeless, in the spaces that open up beyond the Milky Way. Those same hexagonal crystals are alveoli in the brain, where images emerged. And the central commissure of the encephalon, two entwined serpents, is to be found in the Milky Way.”
― Roberto Calasso, Il cacciatore celeste