"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but……" — Antonio Tabucchi
"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
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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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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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