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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."

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"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."

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"The truth is that few know the truth."

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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

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"You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!"

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"What you know for me is just the little from the many."

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"If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen..."

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"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

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"Books can kill you, while you are reading."

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"What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them."

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"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"

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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."

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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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"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
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"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
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"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."
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"What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre."
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"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."
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"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
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"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue."
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