"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

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"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."

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"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."

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"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."

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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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"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."

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"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."

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"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."

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"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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"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate."

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

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