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"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."
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"Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone."

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with strange aeons even death may die."

"To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart."

"Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye."
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"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."

"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."

"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."

"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."

"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."

"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."

"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."
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