السراب
A source page for quotes linked to Naguib Mahfouz.
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“...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.”
Source: Palace Walk
“An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.”
Source: Palace Walk
Source: حضرة المحترم
Source: قشتمر
“Silence is the last try to tell them everything they didn’t understand when we were speaking”
“Thought is a double-edged blessing”
Source: Midaq Alley
“Take your fill, for you will not see again that which you are leaving. Every moment is the last.”
Source: The Time and the Place and Other Stories
Source: السراب
“There is no reality in the world except for change.”
Source: Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales
Source: السراب
“لا يفرق بين رجل و رجل إلا إمرأة”
Source: Sugar Street
Source: The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
Source: الشحاذ
“القراءة في مصر ملهاة رخيصة ولن تتطور حتى تؤمن بأن القراءة ضرورة حيوية”
Source: Sugar Street
“ليس أشقى من أن يقرعك الندم و أنت ذو إيمان”
Source: السراب
“لا تبن آمالك في الحياة على موت إنسان”
Source: السراب
Source: بداية ونهاية
“الإيمان الحق نفيض السعادة التافهة”
Source: حضرة المحترم
“وليس أشق على النفس من تغيير عادة”
Source: السراب
“في المجتمع المختل يبدو الصحيح مريضا والمريض صحيحا”
Source: Sugar Street
Source: Sugar Street
“La vista y el oído pueden engañar, pero el corazón nunca miente”
“الأخطاء ترتكب بعدد تردد الأنفاس”
Source: حضرة المحترم
“I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.”
“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
“Only the poor are handicapped by honor.”
Source: Cairo Modern: An Egyptian Novel
“If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?”
“Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.”
“I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.”