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1 " Life is an immense bag inflated with air and I blow into it reason and feeling, substance, matter, flesh, bones, blood, and the body lived and torn to the point of exhaustion to annul the void. Maybe I already have everything inside me, yes maybe I do and I just want a pair of lips to blow into the balloon with me. "
― D.H. Landolfi , The Jump
2 " Writing is therapeutic. There is no better way to get at yourself than through the foreign world you create. "
3 " I do not think mystery is so far from reality. Life is never what it seems to be. And I find this quite ‘supernatural’. "
― D.H. Landolfi
4 " Let the word be written by you and not told by others "
5 " Time corrodes feelings like an acid; it destroys them in the routine of seconds, of minutes, always identical to themselves. But we were an interminable present, a shadow materialising, a ghost taking shape. To taste and smell you was beyond imagining. You were real. We were real. "
6 " I have not forgotten you. You threw mud at me. Like an elephant I bask in it and still carry you on my skin. Only fools lose their memory. I lost you, I lost you, but you see, I can still walk on water. "
7 " You should never look back after you've made a choice, unless you realise you were wrong. And perhaps even then you don't have to retrace your steps. Maybe. Only gypsies and thieves never really go back to where they've been. "
8 " If you understand that life is a game, it means that you are a skilled player. You know it's time to let go. Loosen your grip, get up, get off the stage, walk away. Life is a stifling, endless, infamous match. And between the pawn and the king, in the final challenge, there's not that much difference "
9 " Sometimes fate is more curious and surprising than an unexpected and equally disgusting crime. It may be called destiny, fate, God, whoever's up there or down here rolling dice, he is certainly having a great laugh indeed. "
― D.H. Landolfi , Un probabile delitto
