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Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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
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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
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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
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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
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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
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
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