Top 47 Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

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.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

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.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

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.