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Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian . He was extremely productive, and wrote in addition to novels also poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. September 1908 – 26. August 1979   •   Other names Mika Toimi Waltari, میکا والتاری
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The Egyptian
The Egyptian
Mika Waltari
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Mika Waltari Quotes

“Sinuhe, my friend, we have been born into strange times. Everything is melting - changing its shape - like clay on a potter's wheel. Dress is changing, words, customs are changing, and people no longer believe in the gods - though they may fear them. Sinuhe, my friend, perhaps we were born to see the sunset of the world, for the world is already old, and twelve hundred years have passed since the building of the pyramids. When I think of this, I want to bury my head in my hands and cry like a child.”

Mika Waltari book The Egyptian

The Egyptian

God , People , World , Fear

“Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea.”

Mika Waltari
Life , Death , Sea , Night

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