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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish
Age: 67 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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Without hope we are lost.
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