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Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

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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Poetry | Urgent | Denounce | Injustice | Exploitation |

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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

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. - Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

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