Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

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Antonio Tabucchi

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 24, 1943

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

Antonio Tabucchi

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.

Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Antonio Tabucchi

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

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

Antonio Tabucchi

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Antonio Tabucchi

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Antonio Tabucchi

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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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

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I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

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

Antonio Tabucchi

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

Antonio Tabucchi