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Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
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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Film Writer
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
Handicapped
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Poor
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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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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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In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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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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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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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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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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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.
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