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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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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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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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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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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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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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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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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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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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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
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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 know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
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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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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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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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