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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

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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Journalist
Novelist
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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 criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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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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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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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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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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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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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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