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"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."
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"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."

"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."

"As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families."
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"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."


"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."


"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."


"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 write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
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