Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

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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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• Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

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  Hate, Doe, I Hate You

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Happy is he who can give himself up.

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  Happiness, Giving

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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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• 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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