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Tahar Ben Jelloun
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"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don’t have to leave."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Hope
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It’s not very funny, but it’s sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Funny
"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Beauty
"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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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
War
"It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Respect
"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Friendship
"Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Politics
"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."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Death
"I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Legal
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