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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.
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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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.
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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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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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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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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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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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