Quotes by : Erri De Luca

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I....

I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller.....

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not....

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

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

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold....

I see the pain of miserly love in young people,' I say. 'You don't have that kind of melancholy on your....

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

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation....

On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper....