I belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return.” – Amin Maalouf “I am the son of the road, my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages.And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.” – Amin Maalouf “For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances.“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.” – Amin Maalouf.You must find the time of innocence in yourself again, because that was also the time of courage.” – Amin Maalouf “Don’t be so timid! When you were a child, didn’t you speak out the truth that the oldest ones kept secret? Well, you were right then.“Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.” – Amin Maalouf.“Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.” – Amin Maalouf.Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.” – Amin Maalouf “By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death.“At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.” – Amin Maalouf.“Are you certain that a man’s life begins with his birth?” – Amin Maalouf.“All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.” – Amin Maalouf.Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.” – Amin Maalouf
“A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words.“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.” – Amin Maalouf.
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