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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting
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.
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.
At eighteen you sleep without memories.
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.
I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.
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?
