Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
Amin MaaloufI am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return
Amin MaaloufWe are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
Amin MaaloufThe fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
Amin Maalouf