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My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller


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Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.



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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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And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.



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We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.



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We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.



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If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.



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Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.





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This page presents the quote "My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller". Author of this quote is Mahmoud Darwish. This quote is about homeland, suitcases, traveller,.