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"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
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"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

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"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."
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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."


"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."


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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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