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

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Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Mahmoud Darwish

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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And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

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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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