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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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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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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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