Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

• It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

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  Jobs, Perfection, Doubt

  "Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Como un cometa abrasador, he atravesado noches infinitas, espacios interestelares de la imaginación, la voluptuosidad y el miedo. He sido hombre, mujer, anciano, niña, he sido la multitud en los grandes bulevares de las capitales de Occidente, he sido el sereno Buda de Oriente, cuya calma y sabiduría envidiamos. He conocido el honor y el deshonor, el entusiasmo y el agotamiento. He sido el sol y la luna, y todo porque la vida no basta.

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  Girl, Moon, Night

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• I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

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  Insomnia, Recycling, Anaesthesia

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• Un intelectual va a tener dudas, por ejemplo, sobre una doctrina religiosa fundamentalista que no admite dudas, sobre un sistema político impuesto que no permite dudas, sobre una estética perfecta que no admite dudas.

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  Religious, Perfect, Political

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• I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

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  Family, Home, Quiet

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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, Mean, Land

  "I lost a reference with whom I '...want to be someone else but without ceasing to be[me]...'" by PEDRO74, ireport.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.

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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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  Philosophy, Literature, Fantasy

  Antonio Tabucchi (2010). “Pereira Maintains”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

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  Fundamentals, Impossible, Values

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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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  White, Doubt, Clean

  "Antonio Tabucchi: A Committed Doubter". Interview with Asbel Lopez, UNESCO Courier, November 1999.

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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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  Mean, Perfection, Democracy

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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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  Regret, Able, Feels

  Antonio Tabucchi (1989). “Little Misunderstandings of No Importance”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• La perfección engendra doctrinas, dictadores e ideas totalitarias.

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  Ideas, Perfection, Doctrine

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• La sal de cualquier civilización interesante es la mezcla.

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  Civilization, Interesting, Mixtures

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• personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

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  People, Literature, Don't Trust

  Antonio Tabucchi (2002). “Requiem: A Hallucination”, p.99, New Directions Publishing

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• I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

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  People, Contradiction

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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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• 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, Thinking, Museums

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• As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

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  Regreso

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• I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

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  Reclamaciones

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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, Views, Hygiene

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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, People, Grandfather

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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

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• History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

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  Animal, History, Bigs

  "Pereira Maintains". Book by Antonio Tabucchi (p. 89), 1994.

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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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  Soul, Intellectual, Body

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• My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

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  Jobs, Looks, Politics

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