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Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Naguib Mahfouz

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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
Artist
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Film Writer
Intellectual
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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Writer
Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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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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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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