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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
Explore more quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
"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."
"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 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."
"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
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