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"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
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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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."
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"I did it,... I talked to Stephen King in a dream... not once but twice in two dreams. - As far from here I can tell you it's awesome... I did it... I jerkoff on a dream... dreaming that I'm jerking off.... I did it... I fucked a girl in a dream!"

"It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you."

"When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, "Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end."

"Dreaming pleasantly is spiritual."

"Discover your true passion in life. Turn it into a big dream. Promise yourself that quitting isn't an option, and then work tirelessly on it until its reality becomes your new present. There is truly more to life than just working for a paycheck."

"Do not get discourage in pursuit of your dreams."
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