Second world war Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would when read…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing is nobler than the earth that…

— Tahar ben Jelloun

“Our first love is always our last.”

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun