"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again."

-- Antonin Artaud

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“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”
“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.”
“Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.”
“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.”
“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”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.1, Arcade Publishing
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”
“A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was standing up is not to be intimidating but rather to make eye contact. His question was essentially "are we really interested in moral motives? Isn't it all about action?". I pointed out to him that it was not enough for him to do the right thing - stand up - but he also wanted me to know that he is doing it from the right motive or for the right reason - to make eye contact, rather than to be intimidating. Voila, moral psychology.”

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