"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion." — Tahar Ben Jelloun

"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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49 Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists…
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not…
Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French…
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer…
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to…
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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