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Tahar Ben Jelloun
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"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Courage
"For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
History
"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Poetry
"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."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Change
"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."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Freedom
"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Friendship
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