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Ahmed Ben Bella

"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."

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"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."

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Akiroq Brost

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."

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Akiroq Brost

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

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Akiroq Brost

"It feels great to read but greater to write."

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"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."

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Akiroq Brost

"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."

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"A writer cannot serve today those who make history, he must serve those who are subject to it."

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"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."

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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."

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"My dear Copperfield, he replied. "To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence, said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, "the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!"

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France."

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