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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
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"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."
"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."
"What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre."
"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."
"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue."
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