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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
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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 practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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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 know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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