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"Without literature my life would be miserable."
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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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"We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."
"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
"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."
"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
"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 reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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