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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."

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"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."

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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

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"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

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"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

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"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

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"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."

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"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

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"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."

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"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"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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