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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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"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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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"
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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."

"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."

"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."

"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."

"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
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