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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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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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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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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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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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Insults are the business of the court.
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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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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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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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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 accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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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