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If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

Naguib Mahfouz

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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
Artist
Autobiographer
Film Writer
Intellectual
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
Life
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Create

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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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Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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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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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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Insults are the business of the court.
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