"Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
"I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat."
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Source: Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Beginning and the End”, p.137, Anchor
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