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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."
"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
Explore more quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."
"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."
"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 accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
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