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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.
And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
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.
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.
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.
When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
At eighteen you sleep without memories.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
