Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

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Writer and academic · Italian · 1943–2012

Italian writer and academic (1943–2012)

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“I live quietly at home among my family and friends.”

“No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.”

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

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

“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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“This story, which takes place one a Sunday in July in a hot, deserted Lisbon, is the Requiem that the character I refer to as I was called on to perform in this book. Were someone to ask me why I w...”

— Antonio Tabucchi

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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.”

— Antonio Tabucchi

Life My Life Point Of View

“No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.”

— Antonio Tabucchi

Life Happy Job

“I live quietly at home among my family and friends.”

— Antonio Tabucchi

Home Friends Live

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

— Antonio Tabucchi

Imagination Like Infinite

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

— Antonio Tabucchi

Job Me Fantasy