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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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Journalist
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Cairo
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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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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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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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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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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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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Insults are the business of the court.
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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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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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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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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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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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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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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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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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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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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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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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