Without literature my life would be miserable. Naguib Mahfouz More Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz More Quotes From Naguib Mahfouz Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever. Naguib Mahfouz foreverpeopleyears 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 eyeheropeople Happy is he who can give himself up. Naguib Mahfouz happinessgiving In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain. Naguib Mahfouz good-deedsgainsdeeds 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 perfectbelieveart The real malady is fear of life, not of death Naguib Mahfouz maladyfears-of-lifereal Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. Naguib Mahfouz todaycivilizationneeds The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. Naguib Mahfouz doubtstoriesart 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. Naguib Mahfouz doorsbelievepeople 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 touchingprayermen At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. Naguib Mahfouz pessimisticagebirthday 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. Naguib Mahfouz writingmenthinking "Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III. Naguib Mahfouz illnesssaidlove-is According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. Naguib Mahfouz islamicchoicesmen 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 literaturepeopleideas 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 individuali-believebelieve 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. Naguib Mahfouz readingwritingbook If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last. Naguib Mahfouz literaturewantwriting 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. Naguib Mahfouz love-yourselfrelaxbeautiful 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 landwaitingdream
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