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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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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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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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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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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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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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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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