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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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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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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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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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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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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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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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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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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.
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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