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At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.


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That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.



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When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.



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Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.



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This page presents the quote "At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.". Author of this quote is Naz?m Hikmet. This quote is about pebbles, eighteen, slingshots, heart,.