"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."

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"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."

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

Government, Evening, Writer

"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."

Education, Goals, Agriculture, Democracy

"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."

Love, Thought, Books, Reading

"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."

Life, Battle, Help

"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."

Love, Poetry, Relax

"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."

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"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."

Thought, Writer

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

Peace, Work, Media

"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."

Constitution, Now, Opinions, Press

"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."

History, Society, People, Ideas

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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"All great achievements require time."

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"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"The years teach much which the days never know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

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