Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

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• Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

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  Hate, Doe, I Hate You

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• Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

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  Home, Born, Cease

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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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  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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• It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

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  Heart, Mind, Affliction

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Mar 05, 2014

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• As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

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  Lying, Love Is, Mind

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Feb 14, 2016

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• I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

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  Sea, Joy, Sorrow

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Mar 16, 2013

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• Madness is the acme of intelligence.

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  Madness

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Arabian Nights and Days”, p.135, Anchor

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

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  Life Has No Meaning, Ifs

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• We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

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  Reading, Accepting

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.89, Anchor

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• Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

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  Sad Life, Records, Body

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.139, Anchor

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• Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

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  Honor, Poor, Handicapped

  Naguib Mahfouz (2013). “Cairo Modern: An Egyptian Novel”, p.92, The American University in Cairo Press

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• The heart is a place of secrets.

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  Heart, Secret

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Arabian Nights and Days”, p.70, Anchor

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• Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

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  Expression, Sacred, Freedom Of Expression

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• The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

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  Memories, Magic, Calendars

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.19, Anchor

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• You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

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  Sick, Knows

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Adrift on the Nile”, p.21, Anchor

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• I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

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  Believe, Long, People

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.329, Anchor

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• Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

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  Mean, Reality, Negative

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• Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

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  Years, People, Forever

  Naguib Mahfouz (2011). “The Dreams”, p.260, Anchor

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• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

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  Prayer, Men, Touching

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• Happy is he who can give himself up.

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  Happiness, Giving

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• Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

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  Life, People, Religion

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• God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

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  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "The Handbook of Wisdom and Delight". Book by Thorntize, p. 121, 2009.

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• The real malady is fear of life, not of death

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  Real, Fears Of Life, Malady

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 29, 2011

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• Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

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  Art, Believe, Perfect

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• The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

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  Law, Civilized Nations, Literature

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