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"Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul."
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"I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial."
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"I can't be my own person, if i constantly require someone else to hold me together."
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Personal Development
"But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves--rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children."
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"You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more."
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"But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn't spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can't agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress."
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"Nobody will live your life for you."
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Personal Development
"There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them."
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"Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas-that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!"
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"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
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Explore more quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
"If we reject science, we reject the common man."
Science
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
Reading
"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."
Thought
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
Society
"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."
Art
"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."
Education
"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."
Love
"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."
Life
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
People
"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
Time
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