Naguib Mahfouz citations (10 citations)

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Naguib Mahfouz citations célèbres

“La laideur n'a jamais été un défaut, chez un homme. Il a un salaire élevé. Il est d'une bonne famille… Mais c'est toi qui auras le dernier mot…”

Naguib Mahfouz

Deux femmes, dont l'une cherche mari, discutent de la valeur d'un prétendant.
Propos du matin et du soir (Hadîth al-sabâh wa-al-masâ, 1987)

“Toutes les fois que Dananir se montrait irritable ou se plaignait d'une contrariété qu'elle avait éprouvée dans son travail, Rachwâna y voyait l'effet de cette vie qui s'écartait de la norme. Sous le regard maternel consterné, Dananir prenait du poids sans cesse, perdait graduellement l'éclat de sa jeunesse et le charme de ses traits, devenait sérieuse à l'excès, dure, rigide, comme si le travail l'avait transformée, masculinisée.”

Naguib Mahfouz

Propos du matin et du soir (Hadîth al-sabâh wa-al-masâ, )

“Il adhérait aux conceptions politiques de son père, qui flattaient peut-être sa vanité et allaient dans le sens de son mépris pour le petit peuple. Il considérait que les revendications patriotiques et la souveraineté populaire n'étaient que des bouffonneries triviales.”

Naguib Mahfouz

Propos du matin et du soir (Hadîth al-sabâh wa-al-masâ, )

Naguib Mahfouz: Citations en anglais

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

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Cited in: Michael J. Gelb (1996) Thinking for a change: discovering the power to create, communicate and lead. p. 96

“According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.”

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Naguib Mahfouz in: Gary Dexter (2010) Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective Form Amis to Zola. p. 226

“Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.”

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Mahfouz (1957) Palace of Desire Part II; Cited in Matt Schudel " Leading Arab Novelist Gave Streets a Voice http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083000475.html" in: Washington Post, August 31, 2006

“Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”

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Naguib Mahfouz livre Palace of Desire

Source: Palace of Desire

“God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.”

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Attributed to Naguib Mahfouz in: Thorntize (2009) The Handbook of Wisdom and Delight. p. 121

“It was amazing that in this country where people allowed emotion to guide their politics they approached love with the precision of accountants.”

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Naguib Mahfouz livre Sugar Street

Mahfouz (1957) Sugar Street

“Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian novelist who was the first Arabic writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature and who was often considered the greatest writer in the Arab world… lived his entire life in Cairo, which provided the inspiration and backdrop for almost all of his writing… He set most of his works in the ancient Islamic quarter of Cairo, with its mosques and serpentine alleys teeming with shopkeepers, metalsmiths, government workers, peasants, prostitutes and thieves. His vibrant novels portraying life at every level of society were often likened to those of such other writers of urban social realism as Charles Dickens, Honore de Balzac and Emile Zola.”

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Matt Schudel " Leading Arab Novelist Gave Streets a Voice http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083000475.html" in: Washington Post, August 31, 2006