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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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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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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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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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For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.
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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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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