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Antonio Tabucchi

"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."

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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."

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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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."
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"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."
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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."
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"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
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"I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country."
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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
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