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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
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Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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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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Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
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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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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
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My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
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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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People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
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Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
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Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis (2013) -
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
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