Best Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

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I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

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If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

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The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

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We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

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Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

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