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Il paziente inglese

Michael Ondaatje

Il paziente inglese

Michael Ondaatje

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“Moriamo.
Moriamo ricchi di amanti e di tribù, di gusti che abbiamo inghiottito, di corpi che abbiamo penetrato risalendoli come fiumi, di paure in cui ci siamo nascosti come in questa caverna stregata senza memoria.
Voglio che tutto ciò resti inciso sul mio corpo. Siamo noi i veri paesi,
non le frontiere tracciate sulle mappe con i nomi di uomini potenti.
Lo so che tornerai e mi porterai fuori di qui, nel palazzo dei venti.
Non ho mai voluto altro che camminare in un luogo simile con te. Una terra senza mappe.
La lampada si è spenta, e sto scrivendo nell'oscurità.”

Michael Ondaatje

“Daca ti-as incredinta viata mea, ai scapa-o pe jos. Nu-i asa?”

Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

The English Patient

“Il deserto non poteva essere rivendicato o posseduto, era un pezzo di stoffa trasportato dai venti, mai trattenuto dalle pietre. Gli erano stati dati centinaia di nomi mutevoli.”

Michael Ondaatje

Origine: Da Il paziente inglese. Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della letteratura, traduzione di Daniele Ballarini, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 336. ISBN 9788858024416

Michael Ondaatje: Frasi in inglese

“She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product of her parents. What she was now was what she herself had decided to become.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”

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Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Origine: The Cat's Table

“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“… the heart is an organ of fire.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?"

I didn't say anything.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Coming Through Slaughter

Origine: Coming Through Slaughter

“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“… sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Divisadero

Origine: Divisadero

“Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle.

Half my days I cannot bear to touch you.
The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear.

No date. No name attached.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her…”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“A novel is a mirror walking down a road”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.”

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Michael Ondaatje

Origine: Handwriting

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

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Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Origine: The Cat's Table

“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy”

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Michael Ondaatje libro In the Skin of a Lion

Origine: In the Skin of a Lion

“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion”

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Michael Ondaatje libro In the Skin of a Lion

Origine: In the Skin of a Lion

“Do you understand the sadness of geography?”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

“There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.”

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Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Origine: The Cat's Table

“The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.”

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Michael Ondaatje libro Il paziente inglese

Origine: The English Patient

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