Giorgio Bassani quotes

Giorgio Bassani quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.”
-- Giorgio Bassani

Source : Giorgio Bassani (1996). “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”, M J F Books

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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”
“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”
“If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.”
“Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion”

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