"However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die."

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Source : Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

Naz?m Hikmet

“I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.”
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”
“Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.”
“Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .”
“The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.”
“Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong.”
“Everyone teaches you something. Some teach you what to do, and others teach you what not to do.”
“All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isnâ€™t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or itâ€™s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.”

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