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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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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."
"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"
"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."
"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"
"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."
"Abundance in life comes from generosity."
"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."
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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
"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."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
"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."
"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."
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
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