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Famous Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
“My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.”
“I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.”
“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
“In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.”
“It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
“We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.”
“You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.”
“The heart is a place of secrets.”
“Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.”
“If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.”
“I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.”
“Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”
“I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.”
“The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.”
“"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.”
“The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.”
“Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.”