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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.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
At eighteen you sleep without memories.
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet.
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
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.
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.
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.