Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
More Quotes from Tahar Ben Jelloun:
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.Tahar Ben Jelloun
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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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.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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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.
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