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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."

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Donna Grant

"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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Donna Grant

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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Donna Grant

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Donna Grant

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

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Donna Grant

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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Donna Grant

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

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Donna Grant

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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Donna Grant

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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Donna Grant

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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

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

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"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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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."

Time

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

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

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

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Tahar Ben Jelloun
"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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