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Inspirational Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish
- Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,
- May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
- I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
- My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
- History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
- Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism,
- When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
- We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
- Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
- Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
- On this earth there is that which deserves life.
- Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.
- We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
- And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
- And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
- I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
- For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
- I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
- I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
- I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
- Palestinian people are in love with life.
- The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
- When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
- Without hope we are lost.
- My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento