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" I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Thought
Security
Sexuality
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" I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. "
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" For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Me
History
Situation
" 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. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Speak
World
Out
" 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
" People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Alone
Work
Stand
" Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Other
Than
Egypt
" 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
" My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Hope
Create
Investment
" 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. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Know
Values
Impossible
" There are very few great poets in the world. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
World
Great
Few
" I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I Am
Writer
French
" Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Politics
Stay
Religion
" This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Universe
Well
Words
" My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Passionate
Driven
Justice
" 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. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Born
Same
Language
" 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
" The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Healthy
Knowledge
World
" The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Doubt
Thought
Man
" There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Arab
Gulf
Between
" The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Human
Errors
Religions
" An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Voice
Individual
Heard
" I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Women
Enjoy
Immigrants
" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Mathematics
Poetry
Words
" 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. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Change
Change The World
Poetry
" 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. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
People
Day
Every Day
" In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Possible
See
Time
" I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Prayer
Others
Night
" 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. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I Can
Use
Take
" What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
World
War
Petty
" Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Friendship
Real
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