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21 " The life-loving, smart,good-hearted deaddon't want forty days of mourningor say, "After me the deluge!"Leaving behind some helpful things- a few words, a tree, a smile -each gets up and goesand does not burden the livingwith the darkness of the tomb,carrying the weightof his stone all alone.And because they ask for nothingfrom the living, it's as if they aren't dead...- Conversation with Dead Nezval "
― Nâzım Hikmet , Poems of Nazım Hikmet
22 " Most animals are like people-and like good people, too.- Elegy for Satan (a dog) "
23 " Seversin dünyayı doludizginama o bunun farkında değildirayrılmak istemezsin dünyadanama o senden ayrılacakyani sen elmayı seviyorsun diyeelmanın da seni sevmesi şart mı?Yani Tahiri Zühre sevmeseydi artıkyahut hiç sevmeseydiTahir ne kaybederdi Tahirliğinden? "
24 " yolda hiçbir şey düşünme,mümkün mertebe yalansız gelmeye çalış.yalan kuvvetliye söylenirben kuvvetsizim. "
25 " Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to awake.- The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin, Verse 6. "
26 " My head bows before the thing you mention.But my heart doesn't speak that language.- The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin, Verse 9. "
27 " I want the right of life,of the leopard at the spring, of the seed splitting open-I want the right of the first man. "
28 " This earth will grow cold one day,not like a block of iceor a dead cloud evenbut like an empty walnut it will roll alongin pitch-black space ...You must grieve for this right now--you have to feel this sorrow now--for the world must be loved this muchif you're going to say "I lived" ... "
29 " Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously, so much so and to such a degree that, for example, your hands tied behind your back, your back to the wall, or else in a laboratory in your white coat and safety glasses, you can die for people-- even for people whose faces you've never seen, even though you know living is the most real, the most beautiful thing. "