Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi - Page 1

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
Antonio Tabucchi / Writer
Anaesthesia
Insomnia
Recycling
Prefer
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I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
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Claim
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As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
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I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
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Family
Friends
Home
Family And Friends
Quiet
Among
Quietly
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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
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Civilization
Interesting
Mixtures
Salt
Mixture
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I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
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People
Satisfying
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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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Doctrine
Ideas
Perfection
Dictators
Doctrines
Totalitarian
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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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Contradiction
People
Tormented
Contradictions
Drawn
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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
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Fundamentals
Impossible
Values
Fundamental
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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
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Jobs
Doubt
Perfection
Cast
Intellectuals
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personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
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Don't Trust
Literature
People
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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
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Jobs
Politics
Looks
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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War
Country
Invasion
Second World War
World
War World Country
World War
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History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.
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History
Animal
Bigs
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My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
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Book
Engaged
Engagement
People
Lost People Way
Losers
Search
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No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
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Jobs
Life
Teacher
Chosen
University
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Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
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Able
Feels
Regret
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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Dream
Jobs
Desire
Fantasy
Desires
Involves
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But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
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Constant
Democracy
Mean
Perfection
Vigilance
Improved
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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
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Choices
Doubt
World
Useful
Doubts
Politicians
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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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Character
Creating
Mean
Basis
Wanting
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I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
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Circles
Mixing
Television
Literary
Promote
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Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
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Imagination
Blazing
Infinite
Nights
Comet
Spaces
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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.
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Teacher
Existential
Hygiene
Point Of View
Views
Life View My Life
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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.
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Real Life
Life Important Real
Defend
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People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
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Doubt
Energetic
Exhausting
People
Robots
Life People Sometimes
Lots
Doubts
Oppressive
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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.
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Country
European Countries
Expression
Mean
Outrage
Symbolic
Applicable
Broader
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When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
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Army
Invasion
Magazines
Newspapers
Repression
Intellectuals
Targets
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I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
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War
Carnage
First World War
Grandfather
Human History
People
War History World
First World
Vividly
World War
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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.
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Clean
Doubt
White
Doubts
Immediately
Shirt
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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.
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Auschwitz
Fifty
Mass
Preparing
Second World War
Gypsies
Minority
Thousands
World War
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
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Elements
Four Elements
Hands
Thinking
Conclusions
Prediction
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I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.
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Declaration
Doubt
Human Rights
Lists
Rights
Added
List
Slightest
Slightest Doubt
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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
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Running
Melancholy
Museums
Organizer
Thinking
Administrator
Magazine
Museum
Sees
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A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.
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Body
Intellectual
Soul
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Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
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Fantasy
Literature
Philosophy
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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.
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Xenophobia
Civilization
Land
Mean
Nomadic
Resources
Subsistence
Weak
Civilizations
Cultures
Targets
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
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Aesthetic
Doctrine
Doubt
Example
Fundamentalist
No Doubt
Perfect
Political
Religious
Admit
For Example
Imposed
Political System
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I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
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Glimpse
Manage
Mirror Face Look
Forced
No Choice
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Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.
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Girl
Moon
Night
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