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The only way you can know someone is through their actions - you can never know what's going on inside them.
- Leila Slimani
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#Never
#Someone
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That animal part of us, it's the most interesting part. It's everything that has to do with drives, with things we can't stop ourselves from doing, with all the spaces where we're unable to reason with ourselves. It has its dark side, but there's a luminous side, too, which is the fact that we're just another species of animal.
- Leila Slimani
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#Dark Side
#Dark
#Doing
#Reason
When you become a 'public person,' I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.
- Leila Slimani
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#Find
#Media
#Social Media
As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be on your own. Or just want to be a woman, not a mother.
- Leila Slimani
#Enough
#Good
#Mother
#Talk
#Woman
My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
- Leila Slimani
#Books
#Freedom
#Parents
#Raised
#Us
I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.
- Leila Slimani
#Believe
#Child
#Closer
#Man
#Woman
Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.
- Leila Slimani
#Darkness
#Find
#Human
#Light
#Me
My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how she had insinuated herself into our family. They knew she would suffer when we broke away from her.
- Leila Slimani
#Family
#Home
#Nice
#Parents
#Remember
'Lullaby' is about boundaries.
- Leila Slimani
#About
#Boundaries
#Lullaby
I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.
- Leila Slimani
#Art
#Eyes
#Looking
#Love
#Through
People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.
- Leila Slimani
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#Evil
#People
#Us
#Within
I grew up in Morocco. I was born a Muslim, and, every year, I celebrated Christmas in a big white house in the country, halfway between Meknes and Fez.
- Leila Slimani
#Born
#Christmas
#Country
#House
#White
Let's stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that's only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and our powerlessness. I, born Muslim, Moroccan, and French, I will say it to you: Sharia makes me vomit.
- Leila Slimani
#Born
#Mask
#Me
#Stop
#Will
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!
- Leila Slimani
#Fiction
#Story
#True Story
#True
#Truth
You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.
- Leila Slimani
#Children
#Jealousy
#Love
#Mother
#Time
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