I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Naguib Mahfouz
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  1. I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.

  2. Oh...why has time changed us?

  3. Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.

  4. I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

  5. Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

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