82 Quotes Were Written By Amin Maalouf

The French language Academy has awarded Maalouf many great and valuable prizes

Maalox became a member of the French Academy in 2011 after the members elect him.

Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut on February 25, 1949, the second-order of four children. His parents’ family is from the Lebanese mountain village of Ain al-Qabu. His parents got married in Cairo in 1945.

After his success, Maalouf worked in the Al-Nahar newspaper, as well as in international political events. For this purpose, he visited more than sixty countries and covered major events, including the Vietnam War.

He remained working in the newspaper, until the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in the year 1975.

His most famous book

One of his most famous books is a great seller

His works have been translated into many languages, and he won several French and Arab literary prizes. Dr. Afif is a Damascus majority of his works in Arabic, and Dar Al-Farabi in Beirut published.

Maalouf has been awarded several academic degrees.

His works

The Crusades as Seen by the Arabs – Historical Review (1983)

Leon the African – novel (1984)

Samarkand – novel (1986)

Gardens of Light – a novel (1991)

First Century After Beatrice – Novel (1992)

Tanios Rock – novel (1993)

Ladders of the East, or Ports of the East – A novel (1996)

Baldassar’s Journey – Novel (2000)

Love at a Distance – Poetry (2001)

Killer Identities – Political Essays (1998 & 2002)

Beginnings – Family Biography (2004)

Mother Adriana – poetry play (2006)

Disturbing the World – Political Essays (2009)

The Drifters – a novel (2012)

Bench on the Seine – Four Centuries of France’s History (2017)

Drowning Civilizations (2019)

82 quotes were written by Amin Maalouf

• Traditions do not deserve to be respected except to the extent that they are respected.
• He was born in that city, but the future never inhabits the walls of the past. Left the choice of exile.
• If you read forty real books in twenty years, you can face the world.
• The more an immigrant respects their native culture, the more they are opened to the culture of the host country.
• But the future never lives within the walls of the past.
• What was paid with tears is never compensated for by saltwater?
• A rational wife seeks to be the first of her husband’s wife because of her desire to be the only one and the remnants are delusions.
• It is my deepest conviction that the future is not written anywhere and that the future will be what we make of it.
• Even when we do not see a light at the end of the tunnel, we must believe that the light must appear.
• Life of writing has taught me to be suspicious of words, the most transparent of them often the most betrayal.
• In all that happened … no one is guilty except the war.
• Wars don’t reveal our worst instincts, they create them.
• The West does not want to have an equal, and all it wants is obedience and submission.
• The identity is never divided, nor divided into halves, thirds, or separate areas.
• The people find themselves in the leaders who embrace its struggle.
• It is my identity that means that I am unlike anyone else.
• I am the one who doubts everything how can I not also doubt my doubts?
• America will be injured by its Iraqi wound. But Iraq will not be injured by the Americans.
• A person is not completely innocent of the actions of the people he loves.
• In our countries revolutions are taking place in the name of the people, and the people find themselves driven out and thrown on the roads.
• No one has a monopoly on extremism, and so, no one has a monopoly on humanism.
• No one has a monopoly on extremism, and so, no one has a monopoly on humanism.
• When do you know that you lost? When you stand in your country with your eyes looking at other countries

Most beautiful quotes of Amin Maalouf

82 quotes were written by Amin Maalouf:

• What do you do when a friend disappoints you? You will not consider him friend again, what do you do when the country despairs you? Never come back to your country, and since you are disappointed, you will be without friends, and without a country.
• However, few people can see things as they are.
• The heinous acts committed by a friend that stain or insult you; And it is your duty to make a judgment that does not know clemency.
• Time has two aspects, it has two dimensions, so its length is the rate of the sun, and its height is the rate of passions and desires.
• It is our gaze that often imprisons others within their narrow affiliations, and it is our gaze that liberates them.
• I did not go anywhere, the country was gone.
• We find solace for the loss of the past, but nothing comforts us for the loss of the future.
• When we love someone, the most we can hope for is to leave this world before them.
• Others write as they speak, and I write as I remain silent.
• Rest assured that the only terrible thing that can happen to you is to lose your survival instinct.
• When the doors of life are blocked in your face, feel free to sail, there are other ports waiting for you.
• Do not marvel at anything, the truth has two sides, and the people too.
• One never reads everything, there is so much knowledge that one must get every day!
• We are not guests on this planet, we belong to it as much as it belongs to us, and his past belongs to us and so is his future.
• I have lived a rare moment of happiness and I would like to stop it as along as it has not spoiled, to restore it while it is still the same.
• How would a person grow up feeling that there is a country of his own and that he has the right to speak about it!
• When you find the doors of life blocked in your face, feel free to sail, there are other ports waiting for you.
• If sweetness had a color, it would be its color, and if the mystery had a twinkle, it would be its twinkle.
• We love them, and then they die, and in vain we try to keep them, but they slip through our fingers and go away and die.
• bitterness is enough to defeat a person.
• Only those who know they can’t go far can take pride in reaching the goal.
• Oh God, how much I hate the time that passes by and turns us all into ordinary, pathetic people!
• When do you know that you lost? When you stand in a country where you did not grow up, and your eyes look to your country.

Best quotes by Amin Maalouf

• Really? The West is the believer, even in its secularism, and the West is the religious, even in atheism .. And here in the East, people do not care about faith beliefs but rather affiliations. Our sects are clans, and our religious prejudice is a form of nationalism.
• Leaving the homeland is the year of life, and sometimes it is imposed by events, otherwise, we must invent an excuse for it.
• When do you know that you are lost? When you stay in your country and your eyes are on the future you see it impossible.
• No history of happy people.
• He would not have disappeared although he made an effort to move away.
• Some talk about overpopulation ?! If the earth is crowded, then it is crowded with our greed, selfishness, racism, our supposed vital sphere, areas of influence or security zones, as well as our petty independence.
• The majority law is not always synonymous with democracy, freedom, and equality, rather it is sometimes synonymous with tyranny, enslavement, and racial discrimination .. When a minority suffers from oppression, the general vote does not release it, rather it may tighten its suffocation.
• My conviction is that difference is a positive thing. We enjoy living with those who disagree more than we enjoy those who share the same opinion.
• How unfortunate it is for a people, whoever it is, to glorify their history more than their future.
• If the person whose language I am learning does not respect my language, speaking in his language is not a sign of openness but rather a loyalty and submission.
• Religion has become inserted into all matters, and they think that they are serving it, while in reality, they are using it for their personal interests or their whims.
• judgment on our country, since the beginning of the creation, Wondering since we were born on land that does not celebrate us, as if we are unwanted children, and we have to bear the burden of not wanting the earth on us until death relieves us.
• I should have moved away, and quickly … to recover, in departure, my serenity and serenity, and when I became safe from people, learn again, to love them.
• Closure based on a feeling of persecution is more destructive to the victim than the persecution itself.
• When an evil act is committed in the name of a belief, whatever it is, that belief does not become guilty.
• Do you know you are lost? When you remain in your country and your eyes are in the past, it will not return.
• Nothing. They do not know anything, and they do not want to know anything. You see these ignorant people, they are wandering around the world even if you are not one of them called you an infidel.
• He is skilled at keeping a secret, but only to use it well against you.
• When do you know that you are lost? When you stay in your country and your eyes are on the future you see it impossible.

The most beautiful quotes

82 quotes were written by Amin Maalouf:

• sadness! .. didn’t your knees hurt when you knelt over our chest ?!
• By birth, I belong to a defeated civilization, and if I do not want to deny my prayers, I am doomed to live with this stain on my forehead.
• I do not ask God to spare me misfortunes, I only ask Him to spare me despair, rest assured, when God abandons you with one hand, he holds you in the other.
• All violence that occurs here is the result of fear.
• I feel many people in me … one laughing, the other crying with heartache, and the third caring about nothing.
• If you do not know love, what can a sunrise or sunset find for you?
• Some people do not dare to be free even in their dreams.
• You will say: why I and why are you? Because God made us lovers and made some flowers poisonous.
• Draw what is solved for you, Mane, because he who sent me has no rival..and every beauty reflects his beauty.
• Morals are not perfect unless he has the same praise and vilification of people
• A woman may see with her ears before she sees it with her own eyes.
• I am sure that those who will write history after a hundred years will say that oil did not bring wealth to the Arabs but hasten their destruction.
• It is often said about the magic of books, and it is not said enough that this magic is double; There is the magic of reading it and there is the magic of talking about it.
• Your friends are good at protecting you from your delusions for as long as possible.
• The memory of words is lost, but not the memory of the reactions.
• Yes, today, even death itself seems to be stained and disfigured.
• There are other people who feel attacked because of the happiness of others.

In the end, this man left a great effect on our lives with all the great quotes that he wrote to educate people about love for the homeland and their life.

He lived his life as a fighter for the unified Arab cause that occupies the minds of all Arabs, All love for you, Amin Maalouf