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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."
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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
"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."
"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."
"In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away."
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