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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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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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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 criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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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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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 calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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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 consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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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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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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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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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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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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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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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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