Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
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.
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
Madness is the acme of intelligence.
If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.
We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
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
Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
The heart is a place of secrets.
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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.
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.
In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
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.
Happy is he who can give himself up.
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
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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