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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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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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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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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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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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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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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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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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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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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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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 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 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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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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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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