"personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's……" — Antonio Tabucchi
"personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences."
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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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More Conscience Quotes
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one of 1,795 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he…
— Francis of Assisi
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
— David Attenborough
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
— Richard Bach
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
— Walter Bagehot
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
— Honore de Balzac
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
— Honore de Balzac
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
— Bono
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