Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouzwas an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films...
NationalityEgyptian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 December 1911
CityCairo, Egypt
CountryEgypt
Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
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
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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.
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.
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.