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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting
And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
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.