Amin Maalouf Quotes

• Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

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• I have always thought that Heaven invented all the problems, and Hell the solutions.

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• A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.

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• It’s not often in life that you can misbehave for the good of the cause.

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• All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

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• life is not so long that one can grow tired of it.

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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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• 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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• By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

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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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Amin Maalouf (10)

Birth:	25th February, 1949
Nationality:	French, Lebanese
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Writer

About

Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut, is a Lebanese-born French author.  Has lived in France since 1976.  Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios. He has also been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in its 2010 edition. He was elected at the Académie française on 23 June 2011, on seat 29. Maalouf is the first Lebanese inducted as an academy immortal. He filled the vacant member seat of the late Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist.

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