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Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
Emigration is no longer a solution; its a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but theyre knocking on doors that are not open. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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 Quotes
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know thats not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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 Quotes
I dont feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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 Quotes
I liked Sartres views but not his writing. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. Its not very funny, but its sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
Id thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but its profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
In Morocco, its possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if theyd take my passport away. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people dont have to leave. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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