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“It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.”
 
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Antonio Tabucchi
 
Name:   Antonio Tabucchi
 
Nationality:   Italian
 
Date of Birth:   Sep 23, 1943
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
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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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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.
 
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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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