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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. — Antonio Tabucchi
- But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. — 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. — Antonio Tabucchi