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"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."


"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."


"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."


"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."


"What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre."


"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."


"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue."
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