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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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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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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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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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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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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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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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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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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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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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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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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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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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.
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