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The strangest of our powers
Is the courage to live
Knowing that we will die,
Knowing nothing more true.

— Nâzım Hikmet

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More quotes by Nâzım Hikmet

At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot
and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

At eighteen you don't think about memories,
you tell them.

My country or the stars
Or my youth, what's farthest?

It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.

The world's not run by governments or money
but people rule
a hundred years from now
maybe
but it will be for sure.

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