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1 " If we reject science, we reject the common man. "
― Naguib Mahfouz
2 " I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion. "
― Naguib Mahfouz , قصر الشوق
3 " Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens. "
4 " Madness is the acme of intelligence. "
5 " It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. "
― Naguib Mahfouz , السكرية
6 " I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. "
7 " At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition. "
― Naguib Mahfouz , Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
8 " Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return. "
9 " No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer "
10 " An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune. "
11 " It is an indication of truth's jealousy that it has not made for anyone a path to it, and that it has not deprived anyone of the hope of attaining it, and it has left people running in the deserts of perplexity and drowning in the seas of doubt; and he who thinks he has attained it, it dissociates itself from, and he who thinks he has dissociated himself from it has lost his way. "
12 " 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. "
13 " 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. "
14 " عجيبة هذه السلطنة بناسها وعفاريتها..ترفع شعار الله وتغوص في الدنس !! "
― Naguib Mahfouz , Arabian Nights and Days
15 " الضعيف هو الغبى الذى لا يعرف سر قوته "
― Naguib Mahfouz , أولاد حارتنا
16 " فى حارتنا إما أن يكون الرجل فتوة وإما أن يُعدّ قفاه للصفع "
17 " لا سعادة بلا كرامة "
18 " الفاتحة للعسكري … قلع الطربوش و عمل ولي "
19 " الحــب : لعله جنون أو مرض، ولكنه على أي حال يمثل السعادة في ذروتها.. "
― Naguib Mahfouz , قشتمر
20 " إذا لم يكن للحياة معنى فلم لا نخلق لها معنى؟! "
