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1. "Respecter une femme, c'est pouvoir envisager l'amitié avec elle ; ce qui n'exclut pas le jeu de la séduction, et même, dans certains cas, le désir et l'amour." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
2. "L'âme humaine ne s'explique pas par la psychologie. Elle ne peut être expliquée, elle est à vivre." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
3. "Pour respecter un individu, ne faut-il pas croire en l'importance de la subjectivité, cette liberté légitime que nous portons en nous et qui nous donne le droit de nous exprimer." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
4. "J'ai au moins toute la vie pour répondre à une question : Qui suis-je ?" ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
5. "????? ?? ???? ????? ?? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ??? 1971? ? ??? ??? ?? ????? ?? ????? ??????? ?? ????? ????? ?? ???? ?? ????? ??????." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
6. "Comme l'ennui. Nous étions devenus des êtres d'ennui, des paquets bourrés d'ennui.L'ennui sentait l'odeur des cimetières quand la pierre est humide. Il tournait autour de nous, rongeait nos paupières, striait la peau et s'enfonçait dans le ventre" ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
7. "Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
8. "Je ne suis pas déprimé, je suis exaspéré. Je ne suis pas triste. Je suis désespéré. Ma nuit ne m'a rien donné. Elle est passée, inaperçue.Calme, vide, noire. »" ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
9. "Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh. This truth, which is banal enough, unravels time and the face, holds up a mirror to me in which I cannot see myself without being overcome by a profound sadness that undermines one's whole being. The mirror has become the route through which my body reaches that state, in which it is crushed into the ground, digs a temporary grave, and allows itself to be drawn by the living roots that swarm beneath the stones. It is flattened beneath the weight of that immense sadness which few people have the privilege of knowing. So I avoid mirrors." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
10. "Did my father talk to me? It's true, he didn't say a lot to me, but I knew what had to be done. No need for big speeches. He taught me the fundamentals of our religion: My son, Islam is simple: you are alone responsible for yourself before God, so if you are good, you will find goodness in the afterlife, and if you are bad, you'll find that instead. There's no mystery: everything depends on how you treat people, especially the weak, the poor, so Islam, that means you pray, you address the Creator and don't do evil around you, don't lie, don't steal, don't betray your wife or your country, don't kill- but do I really need to remind you of this?" ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
11. "Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
12. "I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
13. "I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
14. "The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
15. "Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
16. "Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
17. "For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
18. "In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
19. "Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
20. "A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
21. "Beauty is first and foremost an emotion." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
22. "Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
23. "I am a Moroccan writer of French expression." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
24. "I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of wind at dawn? A motionless landscape? A trembling leaf? A coil of white smoke above a mountain? I write all these words and I hear the wind, not outside, but inside my head. A strong wind, it rattles the shutters through which I enter the dream." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
25. "Tahar Ben Jelloun (2007)l'école perdue; Paris: Gallimard Jeunesse. 89 pages" ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
26. "La foi n'est pas la peur. Le suicide n'est pas une solution. L'épreuve est un défi. La résistance est un devoir, pas une obligation. Garder sa dignité est un impératif absolu. C'est ça : la dignité, c'est ce qui me reste, ce qui nous reste. Chacun fait ce qu'il peut pour que sa dignité ne soit pas atteinte. Voilà ma mission. Rester debout, être un homme, jamais une loque, une serpillère, une erreur." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
27. "il m'arrive de quitter ma peau et d'être spectateur de mon état" ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
28. "Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go… -- Tahar ben Jelloun" ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
29. "I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
30. "I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
31. "In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
32. "I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
33. "In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
34. "My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
35. "An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
36. "At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
37. "I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
38. "I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
39. "I liked Sartre's views but not his writing." ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

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