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"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."
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"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."
Reading
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
Peace
"If we reject science, we reject the common man."
Science
"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
Cultural
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
Reading
"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."
Thought
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
Society
"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."
Art
"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."
Education
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