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" 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
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" The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. "
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" In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. "
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" Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. "
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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. "
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" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "
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" In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. "
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" I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. "
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" Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. "
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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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" The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. "
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" My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. "
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Toward
" At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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" 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
" I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. "
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Funny
Life
" Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. "
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Foremost
First
" 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
" There are very few great poets in the world. "
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World
Great
Few
" 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
" 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. "
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Women
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" A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. "
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Possible
Only
" There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. "
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Arab
Gulf
Between
" I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I Am
Writer
French
" 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
" To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. "
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Power
Country
Hold
" I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. "
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Love
Life
Mars
" 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
" We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. "
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Because
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" It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. "
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Turn
Own
" 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. "
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Speak
New
Say
" 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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