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Mahmoud Darwish
“All roads lead to you even those I took to forget you”
Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish
“I sang in order to feel the wasted horizon in the pain of a
dove
not to explain what God says to man
I'm no prophet
I don't proclaim that my fall is an ascent”
Mahmoud Darwish, Mural

Mahmoud Darwish
“A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees, they are the ribs of childhood.”
Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish
“—Do you have any weapons on you?
—I have a longing that's killing me.”
Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

Mahmoud Darwish
“They wrote their narrative: We have returned. They wrote our narrative: They have returned to the desert. They put us on trial: Why were you born here? We said: Why was Adam born in paradise?”
Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

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