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But not to take a step forward is to take two steps backward", Abnum protested.~ Before the Throne — Naguib Mahfouz
The real malady is fear of life, not of death
— 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
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 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
We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
— Naguib Mahfouz
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
— Naguib Mahfouz
If we reject science, we reject the common man.
— 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
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
— 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
April. Month of dust and lies.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life.
— 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
