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Amin Maalouf has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I…
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Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.
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All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
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Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.
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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like…
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I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers…
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I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages.…
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A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
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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…
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Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person…
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For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is…
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Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a…
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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…
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
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