« Man, forsake all the roads of the earth where anger cries out and bites, where the lie deceives you and hides, where sorrow lays a heavy stone upon your neck. And, alone in the desert, without being dead, you shall be a little in heaven. »
And so, she remains listening to the silence of her silence, which dissolves into the silence that surrounds her.
« Listen to the desert speak to you Listen to the silence of my absence At the hour of the sentence Listen to the silence I will tell you of upon my return from lost time Listen to the desert, it will tell you that silence is the price of our freedom. »
« The sun itself is yours, if you know how to take it »
« I wish, like the sultana moon and her slaves the stars, to be lulled by the fans of palm leaves, the fans of perfumes and the fans of dreams. And I open my own two hands to cradle my destiny »
« Whatever the veils beneath which you hide, I laugh at them as the sun laughs at the clouds. The sky that bears the sun, the earth, the moon and the stars, is proud to bear them. Like it, the sky, I am proud to carry my life. »
Taguelmoust (the Touareg veil)
« The reed flute never sings so well as in the solitude of space, where silence alone listens to it. Man, you must know how to fall silent like the silence, to hear the song of space. Who can be sure that light and shadow do not speak? They alone do not understand the language of day and night »
Farida as a child
« Very young, children learn the laws the desert imposes. The desert must be earned; it is the struggle of a lifetime. The tree of life grows amid the stones it breaks. The desert must be earned, a voice deep within me repeats. At the far end of my sequestered memory, as in a torn garden, words steeped in emotion come back to me. They tell me of life, of its joys and its sorrows, which the people of the desert and the desert itself have taught me ». »
« My child, source of life, Beyond the barriers of time My child, the hymn of my springtimes Upon the shores of your estuary, I come to land Love of all loves I know you at the dawn of your very first breath. It is for you that I live… And, through you that I am. »
