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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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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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