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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
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Film Writer
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
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Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
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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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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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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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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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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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