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"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
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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."
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
"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."
"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."
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