Amin Maalouf Citas

• 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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  Unique, Identity, Elements

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• Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

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  Country, Sea, Belief

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Leo Africanus”, p.360, New Amsterdam Books

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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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  People, Looks, May

  Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.22, Arcade Publishing

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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

  Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.1, Arcade Publishing

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• No vengo de ningún país, de ninguna ciudad, de ninguna tribu. Soy hijo del camino... todas las lenguas y todas las oraciones me pertenecen. Pero no pertenezco a ninguna de ellas.

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  Country, Prayer, Son

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Leo Africanus”, p.1, New Amsterdam Books

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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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  Sorrow, Tears, Battle

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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

  Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.37, Arcade Publishing

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• Cada individuo es un punto de encuentro para muchas lealtades diferentes, y a veces estas lealtades entran en conflicto entre sí y enfrentan a la persona que las alberga a decisiones difíciles

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  Loyalty, Difficult Choices, Different

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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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  Hermoso, Estrellas, Corazón

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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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, Son, One Day

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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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  Others Opinions, Opposites, People

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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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  Writing, Taught, Treacherous

  Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.9, Arcade Publishing

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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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  People, Lazy, Together

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• demos gracias a Dios por habernos hecho este don de la muerte, para que la vida tenga sentido; de la noche, para que el día tenga sentido; del silencio, para que la palabra tenga sentido; de la enfermedad, para que la salud tenga sentido; de la guerra, para que la paz tenga sentido. Démosle gracias por habernos dado el cansancio y el dolor, para que el descanso y la alegría tengan sentido. Démosle gracias a Él, cuya sabiduría es infinita.

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  Pain, War, Night

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Leo Africanus”, p.103, New Amsterdam Books

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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, Mother, Identity

  Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.16, Arcade Publishing

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

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  Tired, Long, Life Is

  Amin Maalouf (1999). “Ports of call”, Harvill Press

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• are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

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  Men, Birth, Certain

  Amin Maalouf, Alberto Manguel (1999). “Ports of call”, Harvill Press

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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, Visitors, Planets

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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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  Giving, Answers, Teach

  "A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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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

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Nada nace de la nada, y menos aún el conocimiento, la modernidad o el pensamiento ilustrado; el progreso se hace a pequeños golpes, en vueltas sucesivas, como una carrera de relevos sin fin. Pero hay eslabones sin los cuales nada se transmitiría, y por eso merecen la gratitud de todos los que se beneficiaron de ellos.

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  Gratitude, Race, Progress

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.412, Macmillan

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

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  Pleasure, States, Despise

  Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller

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• Dios, era hermosa -mi primera imagen de Oriente-, una mujer como sólo el poeta del desierto sabía alabar: su rostro era el sol, su pelo la sombra protectora, sus ojos fuentes de agua fresca, su cuerpo la más esbelta de las palmeras y su sonrisa un espejismo.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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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, Lasting Happiness, Generations

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan

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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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  Hombres, fuego, llamas

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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