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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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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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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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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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