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" I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia. "
Antonio Tabucchi
Insomnia
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" I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives. "
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" I live quietly at home among my family and friends. "
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" Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. "
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" Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. "
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" My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. "
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