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"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
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"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."

"Life happens because of choices we make, if you want a better outcome; think before you create."

"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

"Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?"

"Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death."

"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."
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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."

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

"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."

"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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