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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Literature
#My Life
#Teacher
#View
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Prefer
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Life
#Living
#Teacher
I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Lead
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#Who
We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Someone
#Want
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#People
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#Way
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#My Own
#Own
#Television
#Want
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Perfection
#State
#Vigilance
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Life
#People
#Robots
#Sometimes
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Feelings
#Find
#More
#Sense
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Been
#Interested
#Others
#Writer
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Creating
#Important
#Someone
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Country
#I Was Born
#War
#World
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Once
#Right
#Stand
#Take
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Doubt
#Job
#Perfection
#Writers
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Million
#Minority
#War
#World
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Aggression
#First
#Land
#People
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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#Civilization
#Interesting
#Salt
Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
- Antonio Tabucchi
#Because
#Clean
#Shirt
#Start
#White
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
- Antonio Tabucchi
#Comet
#Fear
#Imagination
#Infinite
#Like
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
- Antonio Tabucchi
#Family
#Friends
#Home
#Live
#Quietly
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