100 Quotes by Amin Maalouf

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

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

I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection.

ابني الأول اسميته جوسب، أي يوسف، على اسم ابن يعقوب واسم السلطان صلاح الدين.

Some women's arms are places of exile; others are a native land.

Some women's arms are placed of exile; others are a native land.

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.

Il y a des bras de femmes qui sont des lieux d'exil, et d'autres qui sont la terre natale

J'ai besoin de ton regard, qui m'admire et me caresse; j'ai besoin de tes conseils, qui me soutiennent et me rassurent; et j'ai besoin de ton épaule, pour y reposer ma tête la nuit