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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
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.
Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords
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.
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
