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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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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 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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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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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'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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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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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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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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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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