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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
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Cairo
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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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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Insults are the business of the court.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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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 consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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