Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

A l’intérieur de ce corps vivait l’âme d’une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n’avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

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Intellectual

Soul

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.

Perfect

Political

Religious

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.

Four Elements

Hands

Thinking

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I’m given a shirt that’s too clean, one that’s completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

Clean

Doubt

White

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Museums

Running

Thinking

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

Claims

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

People

Satisfying

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.

Doubt

Lists

Rights

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Family

Home

Quiet

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

Country

War

World

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Claims

Clean

Contradiction

Country

Creating

Desire

Doctrine

Don't Trust

Doubt

Dream

Engagement

Expression

Family

Fantasy

Feels

Four Elements

Fundamentals

Girl

Hands

Home

Ideas

Impossible

Intellectual

Interesting

Jobs

Land

Life

Lists

Literature

Looks

Mean

Mixtures

Moon

Museums

Night

People

Perfect

Perfection

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Political

Politics

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Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

A l’intérieur de ce corps vivait l’âme d’une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n’avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

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.

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.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I’m given a shirt that’s too clean, one that’s completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

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

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

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.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

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

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