The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
Naguib MahfouzThe Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib MahfouzI 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.
Naguib Mahfouz