Tahar Djaout quotes

“Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.”
-- Tahar Djaout

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“Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.”
-- Tahar Djaout

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“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”

Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”

Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.”

“There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.”

“When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.”

“We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.”

Source : "The Crisis in a Nutshell: Quotes of the Week" by Aswini Periyasamy, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2013.

“There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Be silent always when you doubt your sense.”

“I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.”

“A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.11, Truman State University Press