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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
Malady
Fear
Death
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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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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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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 consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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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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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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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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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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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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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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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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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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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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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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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