I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
From Antonio Tabucchi
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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.
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
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.
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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