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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
Artist
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Cairo
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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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 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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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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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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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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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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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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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The real malady is fear of life, not of death
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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