Quotes by Amin Maalouf - Page 1

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it
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Life Is
Long
Tired
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are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?
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Men
Birth
Certain
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Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.
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Men
Doctrine
Way
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... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
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Born
Dies
Edges
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All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
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Despise
Pleasure
States
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Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.
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Belief
Country
Sea
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Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
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Men
Fire
Flames
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A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
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Taught
Treacherous
Writing
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We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
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Past
Planets
Visitors
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Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
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Age
Migrants
Minorities
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Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.
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Battle
Sorrow
Tears
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You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
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Answers
Giving
Teach
Teaches
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I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
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Country
Prayer
Son
Come
Am
Belong
Them
City
Me City I Am
City I Am Me
No Country
None
Prayers
Road
Tongues
Tribe
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It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
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Relationship
Epoch
Harmony
Reality
Always Reality World
Daydreamer
Escape
Societies
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The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
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Christian
Holy
Identity
Islam
Language
Mother
Mother Tongue
Tongue
Arabic
Basic
Shaped
Paradoxes
Simultaneously
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For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.
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Looks
May
People
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I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return
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Country
One Day
Son
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Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices
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Loyalty
Different
Difficult Choices
Sometimes
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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
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Uncles
Australia
Cuba
Egypt
Grandfather
Ideas
Lebanon
Moving
Unthinkable
Youth
Realise
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Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?
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Believe
Generations
Lasting Happiness
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The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.
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Elements
Identity
Unique
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I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.
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Religion
Faith
Behave
Generous
Misuse
Consequences
Judge
Catastrophic
Proclaim
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God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage.
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Beautiful
Eye
Hair
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What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself
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Country
Cutting
Two
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How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.
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Beautiful
Heart
Stars
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In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don’t be far from me, and also don’t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don’t unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don’t allow me hearing your voice
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Running
Prayer
Stars
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Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.
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Gratitude
Progress
Race
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People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.
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Opposites
Others Opinions
People
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let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.
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War
Night
Pain
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Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity
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Lazy
People
Together
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