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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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Film Writer
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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Fear
Death
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Life
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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
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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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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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Insults are the business of the court.
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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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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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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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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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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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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 am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
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I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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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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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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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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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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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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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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