Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Quote by Antonio Tabucchi

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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an...

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an...

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be...

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be...

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think...

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think...

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher...

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher...

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live...

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live...

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this...

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this...

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have...

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have...

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine...

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine...

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but...

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but...

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War -...

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War -...

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television...

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television...

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic...

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic...

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that...

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that...

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.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army -...

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army -...