Quote by Amin Maalouf ““-Sait-on jamais, nos chemins pourraient se croiser!”” — Amin Maalouf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Elle a fait son petit bonhomme de chemin, la tête pleine de pilules, il n'y a rien de parfait.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pourquoi croise-t-on des milliers de personnes et ne s'éprend-on que d'une seule?” — Guillaume Musso Copy Share Image
“Mon livre de chevet, c'est un revolver. Mi libro de cabecera es un revólver.” — Jacques Rigaut Copy Share Image
“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… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“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… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share
“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Til gjengjeld er det store sjanser for at ethvert amerikansk valg heretter vil bli et verdensomspennende psykordrama.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“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… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image