"We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too."

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"We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"I am born to win."

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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

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"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

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