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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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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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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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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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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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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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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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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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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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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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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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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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