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The Nobel Prize Has Given Me, For The First Time In My Life, The Feeling That My Literature Could Be Appreciated On An International Level.

I Found Myself In A Sea In Which The Waves Of Joy And Sorrow Were Clashing Against Each Other.

History Is Full Of People Who Went To Prison Or Were Burned At The Stake For Proclaiming Their Ideas. Society Has Always Defended Itself.

You Know What I'm Afraid Of? That God Is Sick Of Us.

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.