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“The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.”

Tahar Ben Jelloun · Knowledge

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Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Friendship

Tahar Ben Jelloun

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Loneliness

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Politics

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

Funny