Naguib Mahfouz Quotes - Page 2

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• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

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  Taken, Reader, Comprehension

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• If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

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  Writing, Literature, Want

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Nov 03, 2015

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• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

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  Hero, Eye, People

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Dec 20, 2010

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• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

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  Beautiful, Love Yourself, Relax

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• I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

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  Party, Saws, Married

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• In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

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  Deeds, Gains, Good Deeds

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street”, p.49, Everyman's Library

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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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  Ideas, People, Literature

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jun 22, 2011

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• When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.

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  Writing, School, Home

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jan 01, 2013

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• The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

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  Art, Doubt, Stories

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• Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

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  Civilization, Needs, Today

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• Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

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  Home, Events, Stories

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from May 15, 2012

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• If we reject science, we reject the common man.

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  Men, Common, Rejects

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• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

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  Birthday, Age, Pessimistic

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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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  Moving, Egypt, People

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jan 13, 2011

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• For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.

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  Justice, Forever, Decay

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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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  Believe, Doors, People

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 13, 2015

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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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  Country, Integrity, Believe

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Echoes of an Autobiography”, p.17, Anchor

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• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

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  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

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  Islamic, Men, Choices

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 04, 2012

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• I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

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  Islamic, Son, Years

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• A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Questions And Answers, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Sep 17, 2016

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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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  Believe, I Believe, Individual

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jan 30, 2011

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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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  Book, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 14, 2012

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• "Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

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  Love Is, Illness, Said

  Naguib Mahfouz (2012). “Before the Throne”, p.44, Anchor

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• paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

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  Art, Personality, Language

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