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"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
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"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."
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"True kindness is evidence of true courage."
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"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."
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"Life begins at the edge of your fears."
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"Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear."
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"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."
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"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."
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"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."
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"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"
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"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
Courage

"In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away."
Time

"Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world."
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"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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"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."
Poetry

"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."
Language

"I liked Sartre's views but not his writing."
Writing

"My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own."
Literature

"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."
Death

"People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."
Work
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