"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl." ― Tahar Ben Jelloun Topic(s): Friendship More From Tahar Ben Jelloun "What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre." "New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate." "For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history." More In Friendship "I’ve got many close friends, but there’s an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case."― Warren Christopher "I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."― Robert Brault "Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down."― Malcolm De Chazal