Quotes by : Amin Maalouf

I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex....

People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels,....

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent....

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers....

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely,....

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict....

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading.....

I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come....