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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
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.
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.
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
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.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.