"I don't want to promote my own image……" — Antonio Tabucchi
"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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Antonio Tabucchi
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37 Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi has 37 quotes on this site.
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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
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I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
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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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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an…
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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
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As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
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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…
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I…
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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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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical…
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.
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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
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