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Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Blazing Comet Fear Imagination Infinite Like Nights Spaces

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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.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: About First First World First World War Forget Grandfather History Human Human History Me People Remember Stories Tend Vividly War Which World World War Worst

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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Dictators Doctrines Ideas Perfection Totalitarian

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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Any Civilization Interesting Mixture Salt

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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.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Against Aggression Because Civilizations Cultures Economic First Itself Kind Lack Land Means People Resources Subsistence Targets Weak Xenophobia

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

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Always Been Interested Others Writer

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

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Constant Democracy Improved Means Perfection State Vigilance

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I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Choice Face Find Forced Glimpse Going Image Know Live Lives Look Manage Mirror No Choice Often Others People Something Them Themselves Up Whether

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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Insomnia Prefer

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In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Applicable Broader Countries European European Countries Expression Feelings Find Many Means More Novel Outrage Sense Symbolic Which Would

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Writer

Born: September 24th, 1943

Died: March 25th, 2012

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