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Naguib Mahfouz

"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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"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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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
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