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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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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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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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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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Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
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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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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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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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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