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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
"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."
"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."
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."
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