We Used The Western Style

I Was Suffering From A Peculiar And Persistent Sense That I Was Being Pursued, And Also The Conviction That Under The Political Order Of The Times, Our Lives Had No Meaning.

The Calendar Has A Magic That Makes Us Imagine A Memory Can Be Resurrected And Revived, But Nothing Returns.

At My Age It Is Unseemly To Be Pessimistic.

My Countrymen Have The Right To Shake My Hand And Talk To Me If They So Wish. Don't Forget That Their Support And Their Reading Of My Works Is What Brought Me The Nobel Prize.

The Arab World Also Won The Nobel With Me. I Believe That International Doors Have Opened, And That From Now On, Literate People Will Consider Arab Literature Also. We Deserve That Recognition.