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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
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.
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.
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?
Loneliness feels like prison.
don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
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.
We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.