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Selphan90411783: 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.,Tahar Ben Jelloun,Keep Going, Voice, Situation ,
bookishclaire: 4 of 5 stars to Les amants de Casablanca by Tahar Ben Jelloun
AokoNimone16: 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.,Tahar Ben Jelloun,Change, Change The World ,
hamza505: "They tell you to be yourself, then they judge you."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
CiteSeer: "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."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Godgift64107811: 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.
-Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Godgift64107811: 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
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Godgift64107811: Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Godgift64107811: For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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bookblast: Interview | TAHAR BEN JELLOUN: I am exiled in terms of language | BANIPAL magazine 2009
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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. - Tahar Ben Jelloun..
QuotesFamous3: [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. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
Godgift64107811: 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.
-Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Nimrit0: NIMRIT YOU ROCK
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.:-Tahar Ben Jelloun..
Nimritfan01: NIMRIT YOU ROCK
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.:-Tahar Ben Jelloun..
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. - Tahar Ben Jelloun..
CiteSeer: "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."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Quotes2RemindU: 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. -Tahar Ben Jelloun
rivermoonryder: metaphorformetaphor: “I am in superb solitude, where only the breeze can still waft across the terraces of my isolation.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun, from This Blinding Absence of Light (New Press, 2002)
SRanchordas: Weekend reading tip: Le miel et l'amertume [Honey & Bitterness] by Tahar Ben Jelloun. A delightful family story told in 3 voices about how love starts, evolves, and ends; how Morocco changed througout the years; and pursuing one's love for poetry.
Highly recommended.
VividVoid_: From "The Rising of the Ashes" by Tahar Ben Jelloun
BestQuote85: ⭕️I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
✅Tahar Ben Jelloun
☑️Friendship
xralphgail: 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.
-Tahar Ben Jelloun
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JUST_WALL_ART: New artwork for sale! - "Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco photo mosaic collage wall art" -
murat31131975: 53 Powerful Quotes By Tahar Ben Jelloun
Famous As: Writer
Born On: December 1, 1947
Born In: Fes, Morocco
Age: 74 Years
Tahar Ben Jelloun is one of the better known French writers from Morocco. The highlight of his writing career came when he published his Nobel Prize winning no
JervieDavid: I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
HooperJasmine00: "Oppressive language does more than represent violence," she writes, "it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." -Tahar Ben Jelloun
I stand against violence.
motivazer: I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
BestQuote85: ⭕️I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
✅Tahar Ben Jelloun
☑️Legal
brittlepaper: Other African authors that have participated in the Rolex Arts Program include Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka (Mentor, 2008-09) and Moroccan-born, France-based author Tahar Ben Jelloun (Mentor, 2006-07).
marvinmitchz: Random quotes
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
HafidTalwin: The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
-Tahar Ben Jelloun
VeryLegitQuotes: Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. - Tahar Ben Jelloun
jaunnewsusa: Camaiore-Franceco Belluomini literary prize: Tahar Ben Jelloun awarded in Italy
BeanGroundBlog: “I do not question anyone anymore. I drink coffee and I live.” - Tahar Ben Jelloun
grnpointer: Book 81: This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun. The fictionalized story of a prisoner at Tazmamart, the notorious underground prison of Morocco, where prisoners were kept underground without daylight for over twenty years.
MindfulWriters: Obscure poetry does not exist, or else it is not poetry, it is something else.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
yahoie: Read my 4-star review of This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
linguisticslcve: - like a pearl - Tahar Ben Jelloun’
You’re precious. Don’t let anyone dim your shine. - AB]
With that, she could only hope that it put a smile upon the woman’s lips and went to her own desk with her tea.
ojalart: “I can’t read much while I’m writing a book. I am entirely given over to writing. It is the only task that gives me joy.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
parisreview: “I can’t read much while I’m writing a book. I am entirely given over to writing. It is the only task that gives me joy.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
boringandlazy: 2 of 5 stars to The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
boringandlazy: 59% done with The Sand Child, by Tahar Ben Jelloun
boringandlazy: 79% done with The Sand Child, by Tahar Ben Jelloun
iam_cups: I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
-Tahar Ben Jelloun
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ChadWingerd: "Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever." —Tahar Ben Jelloun
parisreview: “The best texts are the ones that have been written in one draft. But that is rare, almost impossible.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
ojalart: “The best texts are the ones that have been written in one draft. But that is rare, almost impossible.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
BestQuote85: 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.
-Tahar Ben Jelloun
-Poetry
parisreview: “To me a writer is a witness. He bears witness to his time.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
ojalart: “To me a writer is a witness. He bears witness to his time.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
patralekha2011: Re-reading Racism Explained by Tahar Ben Jelloun.
parisreview: It is the character who invents the story as the writer proceeds.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
ojalart: It is the character who invents the story as the writer proceeds.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
PoetNotRockStar: “‘To understand a poem is above all else to hear it.’ (Octavio Paz). To hear it with our eyes. To interiorise it, to act in such a manner that it lives within our body and our present and future memory.”
— Tahar Ben Jelloun,
parisreview: “When I tell a story, I feel Moroccan and tell it like a Moroccan storyteller, with imagery and a construction that is not always realistic, but where poetry can reside.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
ojalart: “When I tell a story, I feel Moroccan and tell it like a Moroccan storyteller, with imagery and a construction that is not always realistic, but where poetry can reside.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
