People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
It is important not to trust people too much.
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.