Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.
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
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.
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…
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 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.
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 …
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.
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. - Antonio Tabucchi
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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…
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