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Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. - Tahar Ben Jelloun

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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

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. - Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

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