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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.
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.
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.
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.
Loneliness feels like prison.
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
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.
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
