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"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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"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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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."
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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."
Habit

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

"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."
Change

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

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

"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."
Language

"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."
Language
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