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"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
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"You have to dig deep in yourself to dream. You have to close your eyes to see."

"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."

"Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!"
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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."

"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

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

"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."

"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

"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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