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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
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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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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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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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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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 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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