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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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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

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"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

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"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

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"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

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"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

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"To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!"

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"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

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"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
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"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
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"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
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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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"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
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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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