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Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

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.
Naguib Mahfouz

Biography

Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: Egyptian
Born: December 11, 1911
Died: August 30, 2006

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Insults are the business of the court.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
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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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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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