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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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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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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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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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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 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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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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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 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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Insults are the business of the court.
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