[malinconia, 2008]

"that very time he had got across a frontier he didn't even know was existing and he learnt that life's made by loads of breaking moments, by frontiers whose existence was noticed only as soon as they were crossed"

"in quel momento aveva passato un confine che non sapeva esistesse e aveva imparato che la vita è fatta di tanti momenti di rottura, di confini della cui esistenza ci accorgiamo solo quando li abbiamo attraversati"

(from L'uomo che non sorrideva-Mannen som log, by Henning Mankell, 1994, Stockholm)