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Famous Quotes By Tahar Ben Jelloun“ Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Friendship “ I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Love “ 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. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Truth “ 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. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Awareness “ The question is, what are you ready to do to overcome poverty? ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Wisdom “ 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. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Truth “ I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Art “ The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Religion “ We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Wisdom “ For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Art “ 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. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Awareness “ We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Wisdom “ Until very recently there were three powerful dictatorships in Europe: Spain, Portugal and Greece. The future for these countries seemed totally blocked, and yet they have been reborn. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Truth “ There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Awareness “ What is published in the Arab world is not always subjected to serious standards of criticism. Vast quantities of stuff get into print. There is a confusion which reflects a general situation. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Truth “ A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Wisdom “ What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Truth “ We should cite particular breakthroughs in other Arab countries. But what is certain is that a long road lies ahead. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Awareness “ We have to talk in terms of making a clean break. We must do this to shock people and make them think. Later we must try to look for common ground. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Politics “ New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Wisdom “ Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Beauty “ Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. ” Tahar Ben Jelloun | Art |
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