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Sadat made us feel more secure.
The heart is a place of secrets.
Madness is the acme of intelligence.
Happy is he who can give himself up.
Insults are the business of the court.
Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
The real malady is fear of life, not of death
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
If we reject science, we reject the common man.
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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.
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.