Je me demande encore si, tout compte fait, le monde n’étaient qu’apparences.

Dans un pays où les décideurs s’évertuent à construire une villa à leurs rejetons là où il est question de leur b tir une nation, il n’est pas rare de rencontrer des talents chevronnés trimer...

La vie est un apprentissage permanent ; plus on croit savoir, moins on sait, tant les choses changent et avec elles les mentalités.

Ce n’était pas une vie; on existait, et c’est tout.

We’ve already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we’ve forgotten it.

La tenancière m’offrit une assiettée d’amandes grillées et me promit sa meilleure fille pourfêter ma majorité.– Sans rancune, petit?– Sans rancune, madame.– Comme c’est touchant… Et puis, arrête de me broder avec tes « madame...

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Whose truth do you want to know, Dr. Amin Jaafari? The truth of a Bedouin who thinks he’s free and clear because he’s got an Israeli passport? The truth of a serviceable Arab per excellence...

Il te restera toujours tes rèves pour réinventer le monde que l’on t’a confisqué.

Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to...

Of course, I’m aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own...

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

But she was so happy in her gilded cage, wasn’t she? She ate well, slept well, enjoyed herself She lacked nothing. And then, look, a bunch of mental cases turn her away from her happiness...

On ne retombe pas en enfance, on n’en sort jamais. Vieux, moi? Qu’est-ce qu’un vieillard sinon un enfant qui a pris de l’ ge ou du vendre ?…

If you haven’t lost your mind yet, that’s because you haven’t seen very much.

Why sacrifice some for the benefit of others? It’s generally the best and the bravest who choose to lay down their lives for the sake of those who hide in their holes. So why favor...

Was I still myself? If so, who was I? I wasn’t really interested in knowing that. It had no sort of importance for me anymore. Some moorings had broken, some taboos had fallen, and a...

Amin, you’re not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don’t believe in the salvation of others?

Get a grip on yourself. there’s only one god here on earth, and that’s you. If you don’t like the world, make one you like better.

…tout compte fait, je crois que mon tort était de ne pas avoir eu le courage de mes convictions. Je pouvais me trouver toutes les excuses du monde, aucune d’elles ne me donnerait raison. En...

And yet we were very much alike; we’d lost our souls, and we were ready to destroy others.

Either it falls on your head like a roof tile or it attaches itself to your insides like a tapeworm. Afterward, you no longer see the world in the same way. You’ve got only one...