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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.
And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
At eighteen you sleep without memories.
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.