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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
— Naguib Mahfouz
But not to take a step forward is to take two steps backward", Abnum protested.
~ Before the Throne — Naguib Mahfouz
~ Before the Throne — Naguib Mahfouz
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The real malady is fear of life, not of death
— Naguib Mahfouz
The heart is a place of secrets ...
— Naguib Mahfouz
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Oh...why has time changed us?
— Naguib Mahfouz
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
— Naguib Mahfouz
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Why don't we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?
— Naguib Mahfouz
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.
— Naguib Mahfouz
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.
— Naguib Mahfouz
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
— Naguib Mahfouz
If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
— Naguib Mahfouz
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
— Naguib Mahfouz
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Watch out, brother. Turkish women end up going crazy.
— Naguib Mahfouz
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Without literature my life would be miserable.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The One God fashioned women to expose the elements men are made of said Queen Nefertiti.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
— Naguib Mahfouz
They had a relaxed look about them, appropriate for people going to a peaceful demonstration sanctioned by the authorities.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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.
— Naguib Mahfouz
You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
— Naguib Mahfouz
An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.
— Naguib Mahfouz
He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.
— Naguib Mahfouz
When disasters come at the same time, they compete with each other.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Falseness in life is the secret that makes man's inner self a rare truth; it hides from him although it's obvious to all.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Happy is he who can give himself up.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Madness is the acme of intelligence.
— Naguib Mahfouz
If we reject science, we reject the common man.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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.
— Naguib Mahfouz
April. Month of dust and lies.
— Naguib Mahfouz
We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.
— Naguib Mahfouz
After living for a month in his home, her character had been infected with the virus of submission to his will, which terrified everyone in the house.
— Naguib Mahfouz
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
— Naguib Mahfouz
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
— Naguib Mahfouz
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
— Naguib Mahfouz
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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.
— Naguib Mahfouz
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Despite dissimilarities in our luck and success at looking after ourselves, we are all human beings.
— Naguib Mahfouz
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
— Naguib Mahfouz
There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Paraphrasing..Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Sadat made us feel more secure.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
— Naguib Mahfouz
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Insults are the business of the court.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Hosni Mubarak ... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
— Naguib Mahfouz
In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Laugh till you're exhausted.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Every inch a person's body travels on the road of separation seems like miles to the heart.
— Naguib Mahfouz