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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.
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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For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.
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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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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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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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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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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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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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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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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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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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 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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