"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl." ― Tahar Ben Jelloun Topic(s): Friendship More From Tahar Ben Jelloun "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." "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." "What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre." More In Friendship "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."― Jean de La Fontaine "I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl."― Elizabeth Berkley "One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."― George Santayana