75 Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

ليس من السهل أن يصبح المرء بطلًا، فإذا أخطأت في الدقة ملمترًا واحدًا تكون نذلًا خسيسًا. إنها مسألة ملمترات.

Με συγχωρείτε, κύριε διευθυντά, απάντησε συντετριμμένος ο Περέιρα, αλλά, ακούστε με, θέλω να σας πω ένα πράγμα, αρχικά εμείς ήμασταν Λουσιτανοί, ύστερα είχαμε τους Ρωμαίους και τους Κέλτες, στη συνέχεια ήρθαν οι Άραβες, για ποια ράτσα λοιπόν μπορούμε να μιλάμε εμείς οι Πορτογάλοι;

لدى الإنكليز وأولاد عمومتهم ديمقراطيتان، الجيدة صالحة للإستخدام المحلي، والفاسدة مرمية في مستودع الزمان وهي المخصصة للتصدير إلى الشعوب الفقيرة، فالفقراء يهضمون أي شيء..

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon.Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

La smetta di frequentare il passato, cerchi di frequentare il futuro.

Ma anche se pensò così non si sentì rassicurato, sentì invece una grande nostalgia, di cosa non saprebbe dirlo, ma era una grande nostalgia di una vita passata e di una vita futura, sostiene Pereira.

L'odio ha una sua concrezione strana, quando è definito e formulabile era già nato in noi, preesisteva in silenzio acquattato in una piega dell'animo

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion....I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.