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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.
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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
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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.
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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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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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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
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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.
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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
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No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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