Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

Army

Bullets

Real

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

Achieve

Forever

Lasts

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

Country

Egypt

Ordeals

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Guests

Language

Poet

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

Found

World

Writing

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.

Injustice

Needs

World

I don’t feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Continuing

Feels

Guilty

I liked Sartre’s views but not his writing.

Views

Writing

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Friendship

Laughter

Love Life

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It’s not very funny, but it’s sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

Commitment

Funny

Writing

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Achieve

Army

Artist

Average

Bedtime

Bullets

Character

Commitment

Continuing

Country

Creative

Different

Difficult

Egypt

Feels

Feet

Forever

Form

Found

Friendship

Funny

Glimpse

Guests

Guilty

Heart

Important

Injustice

Justice

Language

Lasts

Laughter

Linked

Looks

Love Life

Mathematics

Men

Mind

Morocco

Natural

Needs

Ordeals

Passionate Desire

People

Poet

Real

Relationship

Sensibility

Sexuality

Speak

Speaks Out

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Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

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

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

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.

I don’t feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

I liked Sartre’s views but not his writing.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

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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