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b. 1944
Boualem Sansal (Arabic: بوعلام صنصال; Tamazight: Buɛlam Senṣal; Tifinagh: ⴱⵓⴰⵍⴰⵎ ⵙⴻⵏⵚⴰⵍ; French pronunciation: bwalɛm sɑ̃sa; born 15 October 1944) is a French-Algerian author who writes in French.
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I write for a certain idea of freedom, truth and human dignity.
The dialogue that carries us from knowledge to awareness, and from awareness to commitment.
To be free in my mind means you must also be physically free, able to use your own body.
Not a commitment born of anger or resentment, but a mobilization of minds and wills in the service of the common good.
The struggle for freedom requires, first and foremost, a practical commitment.
The only freedom we have left is to choose whose orders to follow.
To be in prison, alright, but to have a mind free to wander.
I shall write to you in complete freedom, and I hope you will answer me with the same candour.
For governments come and go, but peoples endure.
The absence of freedom is a pain that eventually drives people mad. It reduces a person to a shadow of themselves.
The fact is, defenders of freedom almost always end up in the dock, and the censors are justified in their ways. It is a vicious circle.
At my age, I am not about to learn to hold my tongue.
The vast majority spent their days reading the Quran. The others, like me, did not know what to do, except for a bit of exercise or playing checkers.
At 16 or 17, I was at that age when you try to assert your identity in relation to your parents and to your environment.
Borders may at times separate us, but they will never prevent us from standing on the same side of the heart, of reason and of hope.
How can we fight censorship? How do we delegitimize its arguments? And how do we convince society that the excesses of freedom will always be less serious than those of censorship?
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