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Rebecca Solnit è una scrittrice statunitense.

Le sue opere spaziano tra vari argomenti, tra cui l'ambiente, la politica, l'arte ed esperienze di viaggio. Solnit scrive per la rubrica bimestrale "Easy Chair" della rivista Harper's Magazine.

✵ 24. Giugno 1961   •   Altri nomi ربکا سولیت
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“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.”

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Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Walking… is how the body measures itself against the earth.”

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Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby

Origine: The Faraway Nearby

“For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.”

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Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”

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Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”

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Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”

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Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
Origine: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Contesto: Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them—drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes—that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrectionaries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.

“Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me

Origine: Men Explain Things to Me

“Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.”

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Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.”

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Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.”

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Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“… to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender…”

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Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels”

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Origine: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.”

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Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me

Origine: Men Explain Things to Me

“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby

Origine: The Faraway Nearby

“A labyrinth is a symbolic journey… but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.”

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Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.”

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Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me

Origine: Men Explain Things to Me

“Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness.”

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Origine: Men Explain Things to Me

“The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby

Origine: The Faraway Nearby

“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”

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Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby

Origine: The Faraway Nearby

“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”

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Origine: The Faraway Nearby

“But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.”

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Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me

Origine: Men Explain Things to Me

“Books are solitudes in which we meet.”

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Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby

Origine: The Faraway Nearby

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

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Origine: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

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