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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. "
Doubt
Perfect
Political
" As a writer, I've always been interested in others. "
Writer
Others
Interested
" But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. "
Democracy
Vigilance
State
" 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. "
Think
You
Reach
" 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. "
Like
Shirt
Clean
" 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. "
Think
Situation
Museum
" 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. "
World
Half
Again
" I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. "
Once
While
Take
" I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives. "
Satisfying
Full
Go
" 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. "
More
Doubt
Human
" 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. "
Live
People
Mirror
" I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. "
Want
Own
My Own
" I live quietly at home among my family and friends. "
Home
Live
Quietly
" 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. "
Find
Sense
More
" I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia. "
Insomnia
Prefer
" It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. "
Job
Doubt
Cast
" 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. "
People
World
Forget
" I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. "
War
Country
Born
" Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. "
Comet
Fear
Imagination
" My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. "
Books
Lost
People
" People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots. "
Robots
People
Find
" Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. "
Ideas
Dictators
Doctrines
" There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about. "
Impossible
About
Values
" The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. "
Interesting
Civilization
Salt
" 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. "
Life
Important
Want
" 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. "
Cultures
Land
People
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