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

"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."

"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

"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."

"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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