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(14 votes)   The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

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(10 votes)   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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(15 votes)   But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

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(14 votes)   It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

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(14 votes)   Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

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(14 votes)   My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

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(13 votes)   The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

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(12 votes)   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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(12 votes)   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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(12 votes)   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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(12 votes)   I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

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(12 votes)   Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

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(12 votes)   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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(11 votes)   My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

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(11 votes)   There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

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