"I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion."
- Naguib Mahfouz
"Oh...why has time changed us?"
"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."
"I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other."
"Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life."
"At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition."
"Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return."
"Why don’t we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?"
"I want a world where hearts are not deceived and do not deceive others."
"No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer"