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"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."
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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

"Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built."

"Sometimes love doesn't look like what we think it should look like. Sometimes it's paradoxical. Sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone. Sometimes we have to be more honest than we thought we'd ever have to be or more supportive than we are taught is appropriate. When we traverse those boundaries, that's when we really understand what this whole love thing is all about. We become more than just human. We become part of the giant, beautiful ever-changing reality of life. By loving without limits, we become wise, strong, and beautiful. We become more of what we already are."

"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."
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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."

"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."

"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."

"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

"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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