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.
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 melanc… - Antonio Tabucchi
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 melanc…
- Antonio Tabucchi
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about. - Antonio Tabucchi
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or… - Antonio Tabucchi
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or…
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read. - Antonio Tabucchi
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with … - Antonio Tabucchi
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with …
I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives. - Antonio Tabucchi
I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. - Antonio Tabucchi
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
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 mass… - 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 mass…
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. - Antonio Tabucchi
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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