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Quote by Ahmad Shawqi
قلما طار اسم الشاعر في حياته فوقع بعد مماته.
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The sentence contrasts a poet’s great fame while alive with a loss of reputation after death. By saying this happens rarely, it suggests that a name that rises strongly during a poet’s lifetime usually does not simply disappear once the poet is gone.
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“You have a short life, this is yours, live it because there have been a lot of people here before you and they’re gone.”
“My greatest dream for example was to die at liberty, so that they’d bury me without a number in the head.”
“One cannot be a good soldier and a good poet at the same time.”
“But that was another time. Almost another country.”
“English poetry is wonderful but it is not for me.”
“No vale la pena mirar para atrás ahora, sino mirar para adelante.”
“I want people to remember me as a hard-working humanitarian.”
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“Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel.”
“I’m an artist, not a gangster.”
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