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

Humility, Literary, Television, Want

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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."

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"We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too."

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

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"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."

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

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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."

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"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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"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."

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"As a writer, I've always been interested in others."

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

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"It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base."

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"As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive."

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"Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be."

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"From the moment you realize, 'I am the most worthless person in this world'; you become valuable."

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"But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace."

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"If a person does five samayiks (introspective meditation) he will say, 'I did five'- and this is how he will taste the sweetness of the subtle-pride of doership. Actually what he should say is, 'it was due to God's grace that I was able to do five samayik'. He should not taste the sweetness of subtle pride of doership."

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"Great people do not struggle for their position."

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"The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret."

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"A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish, so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care."

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