Author: Antonio Tabucchi

Quotes

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

- 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.

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.

- Antonio Tabucchi

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

- 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 massacres in human history.

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.

- Antonio Tabucchi

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

- Antonio Tabucchi

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.

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.

- Antonio Tabucchi

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