23 Quotes by Emile Habiby

The moon is closer to us now than are the fig trees of our departed village. you accept all these wonders - why not mine too?

But what about the secret I bear?" I asked."Tell it to the world," he advised. And that is what I am doing.

While I was sat there being my usual pessoptimistic self, he was ecstatic: "Verdant fields! Green on your right and on your left; green everywhere! We have given life to what was dead. This is why we have named the borders of former Israel the Green Belt. For beyond them lie barren mountains and desert reaches, a wilderness calling out to us, "'Come you tractors of civilisation

The seas are wide and flow together. They have no borders and have room enough for all fish.

Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.