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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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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that."

"I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."

"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."

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
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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."

"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."

"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 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."

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