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Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

1943–2012 Italy

Antonio Tabucchi (24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.

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History is a big word...History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

Sostiene Pereira (1994)

Stop haunting your past and try to drop in on the future.

Sostiene Pereira (1994)

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.

Sostiene Pereira (1994)

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Tabucchi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.