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

#dreams #fantasy #involves #job #literature

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. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic

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

#again #auschwitz #exterminated #fifty #gypsies

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be? ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#best #beyond #children #could #goal

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. ↗

— Tacitus

#affluence #amid #great #happy #many

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

#carnage #first #first world #first world war #forget

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

#course #existential #i #life #like

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#basis #character #creating #else #important

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#civilization #interesting #mixture #salt

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. ↗