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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.

~Amin Maalouf

Topics: Always Daydreamer Epoch Escape Feel Harmony Live Reality Relationship Societies Trying World

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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.

~Amin Maalouf

Topics: Am Belong City Come Country Me No Country None Prayers Road Son Them Tongues Tribe I Am

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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.

~Amin Maalouf

Topics: Because Behave Catastrophic Come Consequences Country Faith Generous Had Judge Misuse Must People Proclaim Religion Respect Way Where Who

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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.

~Amin Maalouf

Topics: Answers Every Gives History Many More Question Questions Say Teaches Than Us You

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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.

~Amin Maalouf

Topics: America Australia Began Cuba Egypt Go Grandfather Idea Lebanon Left Like Might Moving Others Realise Then Uncles Unthinkable Who Youth

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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.

~Amin Maalouf

Topics: Arabic Basic Being Christian Fact Having Holy Identity Islam Language Mother Mother Tongue Paradoxes Shaped Simultaneously Tongue

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 25th, 1949

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