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"She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there."

"How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower."

"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."

"How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!"

"The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside."

"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."

"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."

"My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play."
Explore more quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."


"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."
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