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"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."
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"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
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"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"No one can do the learning for you."
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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
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"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
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"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
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"I am a Moroccan writer of French expression."
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"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."
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"My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own."
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"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."
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"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
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"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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"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."
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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."
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"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
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