But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
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I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.Antonio Tabucchi
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
Antonio Tabucchi
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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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
Antonio Tabucchi
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
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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
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