I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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