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"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."
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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
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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."
"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."
"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
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