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"As a writer, I've always been interested in others."
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"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."

"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."

"When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart."

"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
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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."

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