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Intellectual
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Been
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Nov 07, 2020

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

Means
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Nov 07, 2020

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Minority
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nov 07, 2020

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Lead
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

Human
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

My Own
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Friends
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Nov 07, 2020

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Prefer
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Nov 07, 2020

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

First World
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Nov 07, 2020

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Country
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Nov 07, 2020

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

Been
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Nov 07, 2020

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Broader
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Doubt
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Nov 07, 2020

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

Choices
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Nov 07, 2020

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Fantasy
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Nov 07, 2020

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

My Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Job
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Nov 07, 2020

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

Doctrines
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Nov 07, 2020

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Civilization
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Nov 07, 2020

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Impossible
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Nov 07, 2020

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

First
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Nov 07, 2020

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

First
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Imagination
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Nov 07, 2020

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

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