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Home is not where you were born home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

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
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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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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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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