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"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."
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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
Exlpore more Values quotes
"Do not depreciate a creation of God."
"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
"Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality."
"The items people own reveal something about the owners. Every quaint item that a person selects to surround themselves with has a basic quiddity, the essence, or inherent nature of things. As a people, we assign a value meaning not only to the things that we presently possess, but also to the items destined for one generation to hand down to the next generation."
"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
"By saying 'this is wrong', one is selling (wasting away) an invaluable human life!"
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