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“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.” quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun — Download Open image

“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

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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Our first love is always our last.”

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There are very few great poets in the world.

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