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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Antonio Tabucchi

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Antonio Tabucchi
Age: 68 †
Born: 1943
Born: September 24
Died: 2012
Died: March 25
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Antonino Tabucchi
Anaesthesia
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Insomnia
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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
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personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
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Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
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I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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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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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 massacres in human history.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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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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In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
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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.
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I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
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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.
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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
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