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Insults are the business of the court.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
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Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.
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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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