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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."

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"On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat."

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