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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
Explore more quotes by 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."

"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 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've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."

"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."

"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."

"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

"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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