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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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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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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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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 practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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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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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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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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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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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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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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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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