What is literature to you? by Cristiana

Cristiana Ziraldo

clauchi — 2015-10-28 00:07:44 UTC

If it were all up to me

The poor would have riches And the blind man would see The hungry would eat

And the weak would be strong And the people with hatred would all get along The ones who are greedy would start to care The thirsty would drink And the deaf person hear And sorrow and sadness would all disappear And that I show the world would be If it were all up to me.

Sara Alfano, eleven (Chicken Soul for the teenager)

This poem somehow embodies what literature is to me: dreaming, hoping, seeing things that otherwise you wouldn’t have been able and wouldn’t be able to see; feeling and experiencing emotions that otherwise you wouldn’t have felt or you wouldn’t be feeling. Literature is a “Second Life” reality, a virtual world that adds meaning and potential to my real world. It is a parallel world that feeds in and fuels my life.

Andrea Dreon

2015-10-29 15:18:54 UTC

“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”

-Cassandra Clare, “City of Ashes”

This sentence impressed me particularly because I'm convinced that no thing or person remains forever the same and that if something prevents a thing or a person to change it means that it doesn't love it enough to understand that you have to leave something free to be what it wants to be. I think that literature allows to be free the reader to travel with his mind and to identify with a character, becoming another person during the reading and this is the thing that makes me want to read a book: to be free to live it how I prefer.

Marta Manfrin

2015-10-29 15:50:54 UTC

I chose this quotation by Mark Twain beacuse it makes me thinking about the all opportunities we waste. Reading is one of the most fantastic things. You are involved by a different world. When you read, you can send your thoughts away and living a new life. Reading is an hobby, and as every hobby, it is not a thing that everybody appriciates, but I think it is really worthwhile. Unfortunately not everyone can read, but the ones who can, should do it also for them.

Gioia Magliaretta

2015-10-29 16:19:31 UTC

"I still don't know how to make sense of the world. But maybe it's okay that it's bigger that what we can hold on to."

-Ava Dellaira, "Love letters to the dead"

I chose this because I think that the world is so big just like literature. It's hard to understand deeply most of it, to "make sense of it", but being so big gives you the possibility to find your little place in it. You hold on to this little piece to escape from reality for a bit when you need it, when sometimes the world is too much to bear and you want to go somewhere else. This is literature to me, a place where you can go to to live hundreds lives besides yours.

Giorgia Tesolin

2015-10-29 16:46:16 UTC

I chose this quotation "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing" by Oscar Wilde.

In my opinion, by this quote, Oscar Wilde, one of the greatest writers of all the time, wants to explain us that most people look at the material side of things and not the affective one because appareance worth more than feelings. For example when we buy a gift we pay attention at the price and not at its worth for the person who receive this gift. This quotation makes me want to read this book to reflect more about this aspect expected also nowadays.

Asia Manzato

2015-10-29 16:47:26 UTC

This quotation by Aldous Huxley really represents myself because I've always thought that every thing, good or not this could be, happens to us for a specific reason: make us stronger than before these happen. Only through this things, in fact, we can "collect" a sort of sequence of possible situations that could be necessary to us again in the future.

The fact that a person goes through something, however, doesn't necessary mean that this makes its experience, because this one consists in how we use it later having tested it.

We can understand more Huxley's words through the famous saying which everybody know: "Through the fail we learn" because only by using tha fail in a constructive way we really learn. Upside down we fall back into the same mistake one more time.

Matteo Chivilo

2015-10-29 17:03:50 UTC

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons.And maybe we'll never know most of them.But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

By Stephen Chbosky

I once read that book and this quotation was what moved me a lot. To me, it is very important, above all for the period of life which I am living in: adolescence. In few years, I'm gonna make several decision, all by myself. This denotes the possibility to make them, and that means I'm really becoming someone. This is the reason why I chose this quotations.

Giulia Santarossa

giulia_santarossa — 2015-10-29 17:13:16 UTC

"I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

This quotation by Emily Brontë strikes me particularly among the ones that I've read because it clarifies perfectly the importance of dreaming. A dream is something that you "experience" in your mind, that you can make up with no limits. It can be more or less achievable, but its pursuit is aways worth the effort. Dreaming is what makes us escape from ordinary life, it's free, valuable, exiting and extremely important. It gives us hope, it can change our way of seeing things, makes us feel like there is something worthwhile living for. It's a kind of aim we are free to choose ourselves and we should always be keen on pursuing it. Yet more and more people are giving up on their dreams, deciding to be content with things that are less than what they would want from life. And to me this is what literature is for, one of its most valuable features: it reminds us through characters' experiences the importance of dreaming, of wanting the right thing for ourselves, of longing for what we think we need. It's a kind of help to the achievement of our personal happiness.

Gloria Bertuzzo

2015-10-29 21:02:03 UTC

"It's possible to go on, no matter how impissible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming."
This quotation by Nicholas Sparks impressed me particularly.
It makes me think about the obstacles of life and I'm convinced that the only way to go on and overcome difficulties is wait so that time can heal the wounds...
As our body's injuries heal as time goes by, so can people forget the pain they bear inside of them.

Daria Ianni

2015-10-29 21:20:58 UTC

"I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"

-Daisy Buchanan, from "The Great Gatsby" by F.S. Fitzgerald

I chose this quote from The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, which is one of my favourite books of all times. This quote moves me deeply everytime I read it, because it makes me think about how it is easier to live happily if you are careless and if you don't feel everything so very deeply, if you don't reason and rack your brain about every situation and every sensation you feel. I think that Daisy in this quote is hinting at the fact that in our society what really counts for people is our appearence and, especially if you are a girl, very few people care about your mind, the way you think and what you have to say. Daisy has suffered a lot in her life, and that is because of the fact that she is really sensitive and she thinks a lot. She hopes that her daughter will be more shallow than her, that she won't be as smart as her, so she won't notice and suffer for all the bad and painful things in the world. I relate to this quote because I think that it is sad but true that if you are a fool, you are happier. If you're not able to understand completely things you don't see their bad side. I think a lot, and this often makes me suffer, and sometimes I ask myself if it wouldn't have been better to be a little less sensitive and a little more careless. When you constantly ask yourself questions about the world that surrounds you, the answers may make you feel uncomfortable and lose faith in humanity, and you realize very soon that in our society being mediocre is easier than standing out. I'm attaching the video too because I really like the way this quote in rendered in the scene from the movie based on the novel.

Danya Poles

2015-10-29 22:32:16 UTC

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

- Walter Mitty, from “The secret life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber.

I chose this quotation because it shows, with a metaphor, the way the life has to be lived in my opinion. In the way I see the human being, I think that in our lifes we have to be brave and have the courage to take risks, because life is, relatively, short, so if we really want to live, we have to go around the world and see as much as possible, experience things and meet new people. I think this sentence could represent me and my point of view about life, because I’m a person who likes an active life, with always new changes, I’m very curious to discover the world and I’m not scared about it, in fact my favorite part of the quote is “things dangerous to come to, to see behind the walls” . I always wonder if one day I will fulfill my dream to see the world and I really hope to reach it, because it would be really amazing to me.

Erika Cerutti

erika_agente_k — 2015-10-29 22:48:09 UTC

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." -Jack Kerouac, On The Road

I chose to quote this remarkable and breathtaking book because, while it actually isn't my favorite novel, it is hands down the one who impressed me the most and left me gaping the whole time. The author's words speak to me on a spiritual level even though I know nothing of the beat(en) generation.
Reading it, I had experienced an incredible variety of emotions and I especially identify with this particular excerpt of the book, just not in the same literal and twisted way.
What is the point of trying to establish a connection with someone who doesn't feel anymore excited about life and is generally bored and boring, I ask myself. I want someone who craves for new experiences, who can always surprise me and does things out of real interest. It is a shame that nowadays people like this are labeled as weird because the mockup is that of somebody not passionate or original enough to care to differ!
It's amusing how old books can point out the current flaws in our generation which isn't as lit up as the older one by the flame of passion. I wish more young people were brave enough to unleash their real selves and let others call them mad.

Nicole Mussolin

2015-11-02 14:50:24 UTC

“Everyone loved Siddharta. He gave joy to everybody, everybody took pleasure from him. But he, Siddharta, didn’t give pleasure to himself, he didn’t give joy to himself.” (Hermann Hesse, Siddharta)
I think that one of the keys to write a good story is to build interesting characters.
This quote inspires me to read the book because it makes me understand that the protagonist isn’t a simple and flat character whose obstacles to face are only in the outside world, but he is made up of different shades, a complex character who goes through an inner crisis and development / maturation: he doubts of himself, he is searching himself, he wants to understand who he really is and not to continue to adapt his personality to others’ wishes, the obstacles that he has to face are mostly inner.

Eleonora Cupin

lelecupin — 2015-11-02 15:18:01 UTC

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

This quotation is from one of my favourites books ever, a fantastic novel full of emotions and moving senteces. I choose this one because I think that everyone could be agree with. Every day we have bad moments and good moments...That's life. But when you live beautiful moments the time doesn't exist and runs away or when you wait ages for something nice and it happens it's immediately over. This occurs for many things like the Summer, the Christmas (if you are a student or a teacher you know what I mean), the weekends too short... but even if you think, when we read a Book. Yeah, because if I read a book that I really hate, I take years to finish it. But if I love the book, it is my second life. I read it everywhere. And when I finish it...Gosh I can't pause I need the sequel and if there isn't, I have to wait ( a torture). So sometimes for remeber that moments and emotions, I read it three/four times. These examples could be unconnected, but express something universal: we need the replay in our lifes and also we learn that the real pleasure is not the only moment but waiting it. And it is extraordinary how this quotation that is written on paper is the reality, and in my opinion is the largest power of Novels and Literature. They state ideas, thoughts that we can share and even if years passed they are immortal.

Silvia Levorato

2015-11-02 19:17:06 UTC

A story's like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you're bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
Khaled Hosseini - And the mountain echoed
You may reject reading and look at it as a waste of time: actually you sometimes don't realize how much it furthers your thoughts and moulds your brain.
A story's like a train due to its ceaseless motion in time and space and gives rise to wide-ranging reasonings. Like a train it conveys you far away, enabling you to identify with the characters and spurring you to think over what to do in a situation.
So a story awakes your critical mind and that's paramount, as you are involved in your own process of maturity . For these grounds I think, as the simile of the train quotes, you can't help but find your destination sooner or later due to these inward changes.
In conclusion it doesn't matter what kind of novel you're reading, such as it's not outstanding on which passenger carriage you are. Just find out the most fitting story for you and let yourself go: it'll display you what your hidden aptnesses are.
Here's the first step to approach your destination: making acquaintance first of all with yourselfthrough the help of literature.

Nicole Pierri

2015-11-02 20:26:07 UTC

“ Don't let the happiness depend on something you may love. ”

━━ C.S. Lewis

I don't know exactly why I've chose that quotes but I basically reflect myself into it. It's like an advice for life. It's pretty much a motto, I think.
I always "bump into" C.S. Lewis' quotations when I'm looking for some inspiration and every time I found myself in his words; in this moment I'm inspired by those words. I feel guilty because My happiness has always depended on someone or something but lately I'm just thinking that no one deserve my happiness if not myself. Everybody have thought at least one time that the one you loved was the reason why you were happy but how much did it last? It was gone that time when you just turned your back at them.

Is my happiness, I choose the reason why I am happy. Nothing else matter, even though I am with the person I love. I choose to smile because I wanted it too. Not for the sake of that person.

Anna Delgrosso

2015-11-06 15:13:14 UTC

When we read sometimes we bump into words or phrases that catch our attenction: these are called quotations.

This one is from a John’s Green book and in my opinion it is a really good quote becouse inside of this little citation is hidden a truth that we often ignore and that’s why I chose this quotation.

“We are as indestructible as we believe ourselfs to be” … we are all different and we all are rich in qualities, dreams and ambitions that the most of time are hidden under a thick cloak and this cloak should be all the negative comments of other’’s people or the fear of been different .

If our self –confidence is always bombarded we would never be spontaneous because our wings are clipped and we would never be able to fly… There are stronger and weaker people : the stronger one don’t care if they are judge because they feel good living according to their choises and their wills but the weaker one are treaded by the others and they are intimidated by their negative jugdements so they change their real mentality according to the all others one.

If you believe you’re strong you will reach all your ambitions, all your goals and you will fulfil all your dreams because you don’t let people to undershadow you and you never give up and you never shudder in front of burdens.

But if you believe you are the weaker one, if you believe been different is a problem you are failing from the beginning.

So in this quotation the author wants you to be yourself in every situation, to brake down all the barriers because only if you feed your self-assurance, if you believe in yourself you can become whatever you want to…

Annalisa Guerra

2015-11-11 21:30:21 UTC

A thing that can be considered as an extremely simple or obvious passage or sentence can mean an entire universe for a person, if it remains in his/her thoughts for a particular reason that is personal for everybody. It is our task finding the quotation that represents us in the best way.

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

I chose this quotation, from the novel “Mockingjay”, because it represents a situation that often happens, unfortunately, after an event which has occurred, when people are in a moment of extreme grief. It made me think a lot about these situations that are so common among people. I tried to give myself a personal explanation about this issue. I think that human beings are like sheets of glass: if a tragedy affects them (like a death of a person who we cared for, a harmful fact, exc.), they will be hurt by this and they’ll fall to pieces, like a plate of glass that is dropped and crashes on the floor, making a terrible sound. That din can be compared with the sound of our poor destroyed soul. It takes just a moment, a second, a little thing, to cause grief and suffering. And sometimes it is impossible to mend things which are forever broken. But there are strong people, who at the end manage to fix the majority of the damage. But if you are in pieces, it will take you a long time to put yourself together; just like with glass, it takes a long time to put together the splinters. Sometimes people, after a bad event, might not be the same any longer, because the tragedy has completely changed them. With the glass it is the same thing: if I smash a vase made of it, and then I try to put the splinters together, it will never be the same as before, even if I tried to fix the damage. It is almost impossible. The graver is the fact, the more time will take you to get yourself back 🤬 before. This quotation excited curiosity inside me, because I guess that a character of the novel has had a very bad experience, has to face a lot of difficulties and has to deal with grief. My thoughts and this sentence made me want to read the novel because I really want to see or read if the character had overcome all the difficulties, and if he/she had, I’m curious to see how did he/she do it.

Silvia Levorato

2015-11-15 06:46:40 UTC

WHAT LITERATURE IS TO ME

To me literaure is like a weave on the seafront:

it overflows a rocky coast

with freshness and news.

To me literature is like an oasis that blooms lost in the bareness

that sometimes overwhelms our lives.

A book looks like a tropical forest

in which a biodiversity of ideas rules.

A novel smells like the begin

of something peculiar:

from the pages a smell of novelty spreads

while thumbing them,

and brings you to a parallel life with the characters.

A play sounds like your pal's laughter

to which yours joins.

A poem feels like something

light and straight to reach your authentical being

and pure istinct.

In literature I want to find something

that arouses my critical coscience,

that furthers me to draw inspiration

to solve daily problems,

that tickles me to judge

what is occuring.

Literature gives us implements

to get acquainted about reality

without bearing it.

Liteature is just something

that summed with your questions

gives rise to the research of inward features,

of relishes, of longings

which weren't supposed

to be part of our insight.

So literature cannot be depicted

with a definition, a picture or whatsoever:

it's point of view that incites ours

to build up the story of mankind.

WHAT'S A BOOK NOT

A book is not a mathematical problem

but it enables us to think over reality.

A book cannot sail on the ocean

but it lets us plunge into the water depth

to find out barrier reefs and wrecks.

A book is not a magic carpet

but it leads you through human up

and lows.

A book is not a landscape depiction,

but it makes us choose our prospective

without imposing it.

A book isn't a jug of water

to ease your thirst,

but it brims your inward empy glass.

A book isn't a melody

and yet it makes

ourinsight throb.

Angelica Zuliani

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2017-11-06 18:48:53 UTC

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2017-11-06 19:21:59 UTC

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2017-11-06 20:02:15 UTC

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2017-11-06 20:04:36 UTC

The importance of literature in modern society

Annamaria Buffa

2017-11-06 21:22:10 UTC

Benedetta

2017-11-06 21:48:14 UTC

Gian Marco Miccio

2017-11-06 22:04:58 UTC

Giulia Gambron

2017-11-07 08:31:23 UTC

Luca Troìa

2017-11-07 14:46:27 UTC

Irene Sartor

2017-11-08 18:24:27 UTC

Michele Brusadin

2017-11-08 21:16:07 UTC

Sara Lombardi

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2017-11-10 22:47:09 UTC

Alberto Magris

2019-10-23 21:18:05 UTC

To me literature is like a door for other dimensions
To me literature is floating in your immagination
In literature i want to find new horizons and new emotions
Literature gives us lessons about the importance of culture
Literature is always related to our own lives.
A book looks like a mirrored sunset on the water
A novel smells like the breeze of the ocean
A play sounds like the peaceful harmony of waves
A poem feels like the fresh feeling of walking by the sea.
So literature is diving into your soul.

2020-10-25 11:10:32 UTC

Cristiana Ziraldo Cristiana Ziraldo If it were all up to me The poor would have riches And the blind man would see The hungry would eat And the weak would be strong And the people with hatred would all get along The ones who are greedy would start to care The thirsty would drink And the deaf person hear And sorrow and sadness would all disappear And that I show the world would be If it were all up to me. Sara Alfano, eleven (Chicken Soul for the teenager) This poem somehow embodies what literature is to me: dreaming, hoping, seeing things that otherwise you wouldn’t have been able and wouldn’t be able to see; feeling and experiencing emotions that otherwise you wouldn’t have felt or you wouldn’t be feeling. Literature is a “Second Life” reality, a virtual world that adds meaning and potential to my real world. It is a parallel world that feeds in and fuels my life. Andrea Dreon Andrea Dreon “If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.” -Cassandra Clare, “City of Ashes” This sentence impressed me particularly because I'm convinced that no thing or person remains forever the same and that if something prevents a thing or a person to change it means that it doesn't love it enough to understand that you have to leave something free to be what it wants to be. I think that literature allows to be free the reader to travel with his mind and to identify with a character, becoming another person during the reading and this is the thing that makes me want to read a book: to be free to live it how I prefer. Marta Manfrin Marta Manfrin I chose this quotation by Mark Twain beacuse it makes me thinking about the all opportunities we waste. Reading is one of the most fantastic things. You are involved by a different world. When you read, you can send your thoughts away and living a new life. Reading is an hobby, and as every hobby, it is not a thing that everybody appriciates, but I think it is really worthwhile. Unfortunately not everyone can read, but the ones who can, should do it also for them. Gioia Magliaretta Gioia Magliaretta "I still don't know how to make sense of the world. But maybe it's okay that it's bigger that what we can hold on to." -Ava Dellaira, "Love letters to the dead" I chose this because I think that the world is so big just like literature. It's hard to understand deeply most of it, to "make sense of it", but being so big gives you the possibility to find your little place in it. You hold on to this little piece to escape from reality for a bit when you need it, when sometimes the world is too much to bear and you want to go somewhere else. This is literature to me, a place where you can go to to live hundreds lives besides yours. Giorgia Tesolin Giorgia Tesolin I chose this quotation "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing" by Oscar Wilde. In my opinion, by this quote, Oscar Wilde, one of the greatest writers of all the time, wants to explain us that most people look at the material side of things and not the affective one because appareance worth more than feelings. For example when we buy a gift we pay attention at the price and not at its worth for the person who receive this gift. This quotation makes me want to read this book to reflect more about this aspect expected also nowadays. Asia Manzato Asia Manzato This quotation by Aldous Huxley really represents myself because I've always thought that every thing, good or not this could be, happens to us for a specific reason: make us stronger than before these happen. Only through this things, in fact, we can "collect" a sort of sequence of possible situations that could be necessary to us again in the future. The fact that a person goes through something, however, doesn't necessary mean that this makes its experience, because this one consists in how we use it later having tested it. We can understand more Huxley's words through the famous saying which everybody know: "Through the fail we learn" because only by using tha fail in a constructive way we really learn. Upside down we fall back into the same mistake one more time. Matteo Chivilo Matteo Chivilo I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons.And maybe we'll never know most of them.But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. The Perks of Being a Wallflower By Stephen Chbosky I once read that book and this quotation was what moved me a lot. To me, it is very important, above all for the period of life which I am living in: adolescence. In few years, I'm gonna make several decision, all by myself. This denotes the possibility to make them, and that means I'm really becoming someone. This is the reason why I chose this quotations. Giulia Santarossa Giulia Santarossa "I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights This quotation by Emily Brontë strikes me particularly among the ones that I've read because it clarifies perfectly the importance of dreaming. A dream is something that you "experience" in your mind, that you can make up with no limits. It can be more or less achievable, but its pursuit is aways worth the effort. Dreaming is what makes us escape from ordinary life, it's free, valuable, exiting and extremely important. It gives us hope, it can change our way of seeing things, makes us feel like there is something worthwhile living for. It's a kind of aim we are free to choose ourselves and we should always be keen on pursuing it. Yet more and more people are giving up on their dreams, deciding to be content with things that are less than what they would want from life. And to me this is what literature is for, one of its most valuable features: it reminds us through characters' experiences the importance of dreaming, of wanting the right thing for ourselves, of longing for what we think we need. It's a kind of help to the achievement of our personal happiness. Gloria Bertuzzo Gloria Bertuzzo "It's possible to go on, no matter how impissible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming." This quotation by Nicholas Sparks impressed me particularly. It makes me think about the obstacles of life and I'm convinced that the only way to go on and overcome difficulties is wait so that time can heal the wounds... As our body's injuries heal as time goes by, so can people forget the pain they bear inside of them. Daria Ianni Daria Ianni "I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" -Daisy Buchanan, from "The Great Gatsby" by F.S. Fitzgerald I chose this quote from The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, which is one of my favourite books of all times. This quote moves me deeply everytime I read it, because it makes me think about how it is easier to live happily if you are careless and if you don't feel everything so very deeply, if you don't reason and rack your brain about every situation and every sensation you feel. I think that Daisy in this quote is hinting at the fact that in our society what really counts for people is our appearence and, especially if you are a girl, very few people care about your mind, the way you think and what you have to say. Daisy has suffered a lot in her life, and that is because of the fact that she is really sensitive and she thinks a lot. She hopes that her daughter will be more shallow than her, that she won't be as smart as her, so she won't notice and suffer for all the bad and painful things in the world. I relate to this quote because I think that it is sad but true that if you are a fool, you are happier. If you're not able to understand completely things you don't see their bad side. I think a lot, and this often makes me suffer, and sometimes I ask myself if it wouldn't have been better to be a little less sensitive and a little more careless. When you constantly ask yourself questions about the world that surrounds you, the answers may make you feel uncomfortable and lose faith in humanity, and you realize very soon that in our society being mediocre is easier than standing out. I'm attaching the video too because I really like the way this quote in rendered in the scene from the movie based on the novel. Danya Poles Danya Poles “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” - Walter Mitty, from “The secret life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber. I chose this quotation because it shows, with a metaphor, the way the life has to be lived in my opinion. In the way I see the human being, I think that in our lifes we have to be brave and have the courage to take risks, because life is, relatively, short, so if we really want to live, we have to go around the world and see as much as possible, experience things and meet new people. I think this sentence could represent me and my point of view about life, because I’m a person who likes an active life, with always new changes, I’m very curious to discover the world and I’m not scared about it, in fact my favorite part of the quote is “things dangerous to come to, to see behind the walls” . I always wonder if one day I will fulfill my dream to see the world and I really hope to reach it, because it would be really amazing to me. Erika Cerutti Erika Cerutti "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." -Jack Kerouac, On The Road I chose to quote this remarkable and breathtaking book because, while it actually isn't my favorite novel, it is hands down the one who impressed me the most and left me gaping the whole time. The author's words speak to me on a spiritual level even though I know nothing of the beat(en) generation. Reading it, I had experienced an incredible variety of emotions and I especially identify with this particular excerpt of the book, just not in the same literal and twisted way. What is the point of trying to establish a connection with someone who doesn't feel anymore excited about life and is generally bored and boring, I ask myself. I want someone who craves for new experiences, who can always surprise me and does things out of real interest. It is a shame that nowadays people like this are labeled as weird because the mockup is that of somebody not passionate or original enough to care to differ! It's amusing how old books can point out the current flaws in our generation which isn't as lit up as the older one by the flame of passion. I wish more young people were brave enough to unleash their real selves and let others call them mad. Nicole Mussolin Nicole Mussolin “Everyone loved Siddharta. He gave joy to everybody, everybody took pleasure from him. But he, Siddharta, didn’t give pleasure to himself, he didn’t give joy to himself.” (Hermann Hesse, Siddharta) I think that one of the keys to write a good story is to build interesting characters. This quote inspires me to read the book because it makes me understand that the protagonist isn’t a simple and flat character whose obstacles to face are only in the outside world, but he is made up of different shades, a complex character who goes through an inner crisis and development / maturation: he doubts of himself, he is searching himself, he wants to understand who he really is and not to continue to adapt his personality to others’ wishes, the obstacles that he has to face are mostly inner. e e Eleonora Cupin Eleonora Cupin “It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium This quotation is from one of my favourites books ever, a fantastic novel full of emotions and moving senteces. I choose this one because I think that everyone could be agree with. Every day we have bad moments and good moments...That's life. But when you live beautiful moments the time doesn't exist and runs away or when you wait ages for something nice and it happens it's immediately over. This occurs for many things like the Summer, the Christmas (if you are a student or a teacher you know what I mean), the weekends too short... but even if you think, when we read a Book. Yeah, because if I read a book that I really hate, I take years to finish it. But if I love the book, it is my second life. I read it everywhere. And when I finish it...Gosh I can't pause I need the sequel and if there isn't, I have to wait ( a torture). So sometimes for remeber that moments and emotions, I read it three/four times. These examples could be unconnected, but express something universal: we need the replay in our lifes and also we learn that the real pleasure is not the only moment but waiting it. And it is extraordinary how this quotation that is written on paper is the reality, and in my opinion is the largest power of Novels and Literature. They state ideas, thoughts that we can share and even if years passed they are immortal. Silvia Levorato Silvia Levorato A story's like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you're bound to reach your destination sooner or later. Khaled Hosseini - And the mountain echoed You may reject reading and look at it as a waste of time: actually you sometimes don't realize how much it furthers your thoughts and moulds your brain. A story's like a train due to its ceaseless motion in time and space and gives rise to wide-ranging reasonings. Like a train it conveys you far away, enabling you to identify with the characters and spurring you to think over what to do in a situation. So a story awakes your critical mind and that's paramount, as you are involved in your own process of maturity . For these grounds I think, as the simile of the train quotes, you can't help but find your destination sooner or later due to these inward changes. In conclusion it doesn't matter what kind of novel you're reading, such as it's not outstanding on which passenger carriage you are. Just find out the most fitting story for you and let yourself go: it'll display you what your hidden aptnesses are. Here's the first step to approach your destination: making acquaintance first of all with yourselfthrough the help of literature. Nicole Pierri Nicole Pierri “ Don't let the happiness depend on something you may love. ” ━━ C.S. Lewis I don't know exactly why I've chose that quotes but I basically reflect myself into it. It's like an advice for life. It's pretty much a motto, I think. I always "bump into" C.S. Lewis' quotations when I'm looking for some inspiration and every time I found myself in his words; in this moment I'm inspired by those words. I feel guilty because My happiness has always depended on someone or something but lately I'm just thinking that no one deserve my happiness if not myself. Everybody have thought at least one time that the one you loved was the reason why you were happy but how much did it last? It was gone that time when you just turned your back at them. Is my happiness, I choose the reason why I am happy. Nothing else matter, even though I am with the person I love. I choose to smile because I wanted it too. Not for the sake of that person. Anna Delgrosso Anna Delgrosso When we read sometimes we bump into words or phrases that catch our attenction: these are called quotations. This one is from a John’s Green book and in my opinion it is a really good quote becouse inside of this little citation is hidden a truth that we often ignore and that’s why I chose this quotation. “We are as indestructible as we believe ourselfs to be” … we are all different and we all are rich in qualities, dreams and ambitions that the most of time are hidden under a thick cloak and this cloak should be all the negative comments of other’’s people or the fear of been different . If our self –confidence is always bombarded we would never be spontaneous because our wings are clipped and we would never be able to fly… There are stronger and weaker people : the stronger one don’t care if they are judge because they feel good living according to their choises and their wills but the weaker one are treaded by the others and they are intimidated by their negative jugdements so they change their real mentality according to the all others one. If you believe you’re strong you will reach all your ambitions, all your goals and you will fulfil all your dreams because you don’t let people to undershadow you and you never give up and you never shudder in front of burdens. But if you believe you are the weaker one, if you believe been different is a problem you are failing from the beginning. So in this quotation the author wants you to be yourself in every situation, to brake down all the barriers because only if you feed your self-assurance, if you believe in yourself you can become whatever you want to… Annalisa Guerra Annalisa Guerra A thing that can be considered as an extremely simple or obvious passage or sentence can mean an entire universe for a person, if it remains in his/her thoughts for a particular reason that is personal for everybody. It is our task finding the quotation that represents us in the best way. “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” I chose this quotation, from the novel “Mockingjay”, because it represents a situation that often happens, unfortunately, after an event which has occurred, when people are in a moment of extreme grief. It made me think a lot about these situations that are so common among people. I tried to give myself a personal explanation about this issue. I think that human beings are like sheets of glass: if a tragedy affects them (like a death of a person who we cared for, a harmful fact, exc.), they will be hurt by this and they’ll fall to pieces, like a plate of glass that is dropped and crashes on the floor, making a terrible sound. That din can be compared with the sound of our poor destroyed soul. It takes just a moment, a second, a little thing, to cause grief and suffering. And sometimes it is impossible to mend things which are forever broken. But there are strong people, who at the end manage to fix the majority of the damage. But if you are in pieces, it will take you a long time to put yourself together; just like with glass, it takes a long time to put together the splinters. Sometimes people, after a bad event, might not be the same any longer, because the tragedy has completely changed them. With the glass it is the same thing: if I smash a vase made of it, and then I try to put the splinters together, it will never be the same as before, even if I tried to fix the damage. It is almost impossible. The graver is the fact, the more time will take you to get yourself back 🤬 before. This quotation excited curiosity inside me, because I guess that a character of the novel has had a very bad experience, has to face a lot of difficulties and has to deal with grief. My thoughts and this sentence made me want to read the novel because I really want to see or read if the character had overcome all the difficulties, and if he/she had, I’m curious to see how did he/she do it. Matteo Basso Matteo Basso “Maturity of man is to have found the seriousness that you put in the child's play” by Friedrich Nietzsche I choose this quotation because I totally agree with Nietzsche and I think it can be used as inspiration. In fact, my passion for Nietzsche and his bibliography in general comes from this quotation. I was really impressed by the truth contained in this sentence because everyone search the maturity and the solution to find it is in our childhood: be serious and concentrate like you were when you were a child Silvia Levorato Silvia Levorato WHAT LITERATURE IS TO ME To me literaure is like a weave on the seafront: it overflows a rocky coast with freshness and news. To me literature is like an oasis that blooms lost in the bareness that sometimes overwhelms our lives. A book looks like a tropical forest in which a biodiversity of ideas rules. A novel smells like the begin of something peculiar: from the pages a smell of novelty spreads while thumbing them, and brings you to a parallel life with the characters. A play sounds like your pal's laughter to which yours joins. A poem feels like something light and straight to reach your authentical being and pure istinct. In literature I want to find something that arouses my critical coscience, that furthers me to draw inspiration to solve daily problems, that tickles me to judge what is occuring. Literature gives us implements to get acquainted about reality without bearing it. Liteature is just something that summed with your questions gives rise to the research of inward features, of relishes, of longings which weren't supposed to be part of our insight. So literature cannot be depicted with a definition, a picture or whatsoever: it's point of view that incites ours to build up the story of mankind. WHAT'S A BOOK NOT A book is not a mathematical problem but it enables us to think over reality. A book cannot sail on the ocean but it lets us plunge into the water depth to find out barrier reefs and wrecks. A book is not a magic carpet but it leads you through human up and lows. A book is not a landscape depiction, but it makes us choose our prospective without imposing it. A book isn't a jug of water to ease your thirst, but it brims your inward empy glass. A book isn't a melody and yet it makes ourinsight throb. Alberto Magris Alberto Magris To me literature is like a door for other dimensions To me literature is floating in your immagination In literature i want to find new horizons and new emotions Literature gives us lessons about the importance of culture Literature is always related to our own lives. A book looks like a mirrored sunset on the water A novel smells like the breeze of the ocean A play sounds like the peaceful harmony of waves A poem feels like the fresh feeling of walking by the sea. So literature is diving into your soul. 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Irene Zanolin

2020-10-27 13:54:45 UTC

"people who have good hearts will always end up losing because we always give more than what we receive, we always forgive and we accept the love we get even when we know we deserve better..."

When I saw this phrase on instagram I found it mindblowing because I really felt it. Even if at first I can seem a bit superficial, self-centered and not caring, deep down I'm quiet the opposite... al least, people who really know me (my close friends etc.) tell me I have a big heart and a pure soul. All in all this quotation seems true for the ones who experienced it the ones who have a good heart and I'm pretty sure god gave it to us for a reason, he gave it only to the strogest people indeed only them can handle so mcuh pain and unfairness.
I think someone should write a book about this topic and put this catch-phrase in a book with other similar wrds or slogans

Laura Sortini

2020-10-27 17:27:19 UTC

I chose this quotation because I think that it represents very well the society of these times, in fact, if you walk to the city center you will see all very serious people, who do not stop even for a second because maybe they are late or have some appointments and at the end of the day, when they get home, they are so stressed that they cannot even smile at the good things that happened.

So this quote reminds us that if we start our day smiling it will make it easier to live.

Giorgia Barison

2020-10-27 17:52:22 UTC

“Medicine, law, business, engineering,

These are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love,

These are what we stay alive for.”

- Robin Williams from the film Dead Poets Society

This sentence left me shocked and inspired when I first read it and I couldn't help but wonder how powerful these few words are: they had literally taken my mind far away from “the ordinary”. Poems, literature are all a way to escape reality: you can start living a new life, experience things of the past and the predictions of the future. Reading is not just “looking at words” but diving into another universe that you can only create with your mind. Literature also develops your creativity and passions, it makes you see things from another perspective but, most importantly, it gives you the capacity to think out of the box and to stand out from the ordinary. To me, books are “the big sister I’ve never had”, because every problem I’ll face was already experienced by other people before me and so I can learn how to deal with them.

Stefania Gubitta

2020-10-27 18:08:37 UTC

Caption: Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for reading inspiring books, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.
I chose this quotation, because I’ve noticed that in these past few years, I’m constantly chasing something, I don’t know whether it’s an object or a state of balance I am supposed to achieve, but it has been endless. Reading books and literature itself have had an impact on me, opening my mind to go through things and seeing them as a reason to change and not as obstacles. It switched my point of view, from pretty bad to a definitely more positive one.

Francesca Pasut

2020-10-27 18:10:06 UTC

“Not all those who wander are lost”- J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Lord of The Rings”

There are many quotations from the books I read that have impressed me, but among them this is the one that represents the most my way of seeing things. In today’s society life seems more a competition, we appreciate more those people who have specific aims and achieve them quickly, we think that everything else is a waste of time, because time is money. But in my opinion, the journey is more important than the destination. Making mistakes, changing your mind on things, isn’t necessarily negative, because the people you meet and the experiences you make while you’re on your way are important, too. This happens to me a lot ,since I have many different interests and I’m not a particularly ambitious person, for better or worse. For this reasons I believe we could all live more happily if we learnt to take some time and pay attention to the things that surround us, without always hurrying.

Elisa Padovan

2020-10-27 18:44:44 UTC

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

I love this quotation by Oscar Wilde because it sounds so poetic and surrealistic, realistic and profound at the same time.

To become a dreamer you need to travel, walk, run fast, rest, breathe. A dreamer has to go on an introspective journey, an inner growth; he gets to know his insecurities, fears, strengths, emotions and thoughts.

A dreamer must know how to manage even in dirt, unmarked roads, where the danger can be hidden around the corner. A dreamer must learn how to deal with the dark, by staring at the Moon and getting from her all the emotions and courage not to give up. A dreamer must feel, he must be driven by emotions, imagination.

And yes, to me literature is like a dreamer’s journey. No matter what you are reading; if it is clarifying your inner thoughts and your inner emotions, that’s it: Literature. A Dream. A journey.

A dreamer is a reader, a star-gazer, a traveller. “Yes: I am a dreamer”.

AURORA CASAGRANDE

2020-10-27 18:49:44 UTC

“Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I choose this quotation from Zafon because it expresses clearly the often-neglected concept that a book can’t instill a different ideal or thought, that we weren’t, even marginally, thinking about before. A book just gives us the elements, the knowledge and creates in us the correct atmosphere, to confute and gauge our opinion with the author’s and it offers the opportunity of moving towards a completely new mindset, or strengthening the beliefs we had. Although, the quotation wants to underline that in books we are faced with characters and especially emotions that are a similar reflection of the ones we truly experience by living, but that we stifle and hide. When reading books we can be honest with ourselves, because we aren’t obliged to account it to anyone.

Giorgia Frati

2020-10-28 07:36:00 UTC

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship” - Luisa May Alcott

I chose this statement because it means a lot to me. In fact lately I have been through a tough period during which I was always sad and not focused on my priorities. Than, while in quarantine, I managed to get to know myself better and everything suddendly started appearing coloured and pleasant. I realized I had crossed a storm the moment the water calmed down, I really felt like a sailor driving the ship of my life.

This quotation points out that when you have a deep self-knowledge, it is easier to overcome the difficulties encountered during your growth path. I think, moreover, that through reading you improve your wealth of experience, that makes it simpler to deal with situations already ideally managed.