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" Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Beauty
Foremost
First
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" The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. "
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" Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. "
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" New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. "
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" I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. "
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" In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. "
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See
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" Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. "
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" What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. "
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World
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" For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. "
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Me
History
Situation
" There are very few great poets in the world. "
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World
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" I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Myself
I Feel
I Am
" To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Power
Country
Hold
" Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Chosen
World
Vision
" I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I Am
Writer
French
" The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Power
People
Men
" I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Prayer
Others
Night
" We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Speak
New
Say
" It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Our
Turn
Own
" This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. "
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Universe
Well
Words
" The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Doubt
Thought
Man
" The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. "
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Healthy
Knowledge
World
" A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. "
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Civilization
Possible
Only
" Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. "
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People
Day
Every Day
" It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it. "
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Know
Values
Impossible
" We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world. "
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Speak
World
Out
" I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. "
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Sartre
His
Writing
" My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. "
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Passionate
Driven
Justice
" I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. "
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Change
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" There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. "
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Arab
Gulf
Between
" My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. "
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Sensibility
Who
Toward
" I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. "
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I Can
Use
Take