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I didn’t decide to write in French—it just happened. It’s the language that I deeply felt was the right one for me to translate myself into literature.

— Samira Negrouche

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Poetry is not only about words, it is also about the body, the voice, the space and the other.

I am trying to find my own way to protest and to add my contribution and my vision to our damaged world.

I consider myself a citizen of the world, but I am also very rooted in my own country.

These languages are natural to me, and there is no conflict in my mind between them.

I prefer to put everything I have in sharing the way I see and understand things.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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