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Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun

French Poet

Born: Dec 1, 1944

Am Arab World People Speak Work World

Related authors: Alphonse de Lamartine Andre Breton Arthur Rimbaud Charles Baudelaire Jean de La Fontaine Marie de France Paul Valery Theophile Gautier

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

Friendship Rare Extremely Poetry Like Real Precious Pearl

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Mathematics Relationship Words Rigorous Poetry Highly Form

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Prayer Every Others Poem Read Every Night Night

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Me Own Out Writers Toward Sensibility Who

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Time Mediterranean Possible Atlantic See Morocco Same Same Time

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Justice Characters Driven Passionate Rebellious Desire Incorruptible

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Writing Liked His Views Sartre

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Natural Thought Security Sexuality Instinctive Context Cultural Linked Inner Profoundly

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Writer French Am Expression

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Mistake Religions Make Attribute Errors Human Human Beings Fanaticism Beings

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

Politics Religion Heart Stay Private

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Work Hope People Will Morocco Investment Countries Like Leave Create

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. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Words World Vision Other Relate Our Further Something Only Poetry Glimpse Provide Than Goes Which Much Each Chosen Set

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. Tahar Ben Jelloun

First Beauty Emotion Foremost

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. Tahar Ben Jelloun

War World Petty Everything Allowed Since Bourgeois End Achieved Which Regimes Average Second World War Mediocre Second World War

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Otherwise Something Voice Individual Excused Sings Heard Choir Unison

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Other Other Countries More Countries Than Get Egypt Where Suffered

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. Tahar Ben Jelloun

People Arab Gulf Between Intellectuals

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