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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 obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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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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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"No one knows a man better than himself."
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"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
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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."
Work
"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."
Knowledge
"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."
People
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