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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Autonomy, Day, Want

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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

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