Antonio Tabucchi

“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.”
― Antonio Tabucchi, Dreams of Dreams and the Last Three Days of Fernan

“Le persone sono lontane quando ci stanno accanto,
figurarsi quando sono lontane davvero.”
― Antonio Tabucchi