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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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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
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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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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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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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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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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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I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
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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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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.
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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
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