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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
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.
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.
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.
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
Loneliness feels like prison.
We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting
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?