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

~Antonio Tabucchi

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My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: About Books Engaged Losers Lost People Search Way

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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

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

~Antonio Tabucchi

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We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Defend Else Idea Important Life Ourselves Real Real Life Someone Think Too Very Want Without I Think

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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

Topics: About Admit Aesthetic Doctrine Doubt Doubts Example For Example Fundamentalist Going Imposed Intellectual No Doubt Perfect Political Political System Religious Room System

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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 hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

~Antonio Tabucchi

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Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

~Antonio Tabucchi

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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Administrator Culture Fact In Fact Intellectual Magazine Melancholy Museum Organizer Run Sees Situation Someone Think Who I Think

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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

~Antonio Tabucchi

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Writer

Born: September 24th, 1943

Died: March 25th, 2012

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