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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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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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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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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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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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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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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Insults are the business of the court.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
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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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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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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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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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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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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