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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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"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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"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."
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"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
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"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."
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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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"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 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."
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