Death
Tabucchi died in a hospital in Lisbon on March 25, 2012, after a long battle with cancer. He was 68.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Yet the wound, O see the wound
This petrified heart has taken,
Because, created deathless,
Nothing but death remained
To scatter magnificence....”
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In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman’s Woe!”
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—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)