Belief Quote by Amin Maalouf

“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” quote by Amin Maalouf — Download Open image

“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.”

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“Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory. With us, religion is transmitted through the father; among Jews, through the mother. Therefore, according to the Muslims, Nadia was Muslim; according to the Jews, she was Jewish. She herself might have chosen one or the other, or…

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The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes…

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Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

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“Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to communicate with one another all the time and as freely as possible? We cannot leave it to time to solve the dilemma and prevent people from engaging, a few years hence, in bitter and fruitless linguistic…

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“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.”

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Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We…

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life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

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“Til gjengjeld er det store sjanser for at ethvert amerikansk valg heretter vil bli et verdensomspennende psykordrama.”

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“Someone other than I might have used the word “roots”. It is not part of my vocabulary. I don’t like the word, and I…

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“On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance”

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“Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.”

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What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and…

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