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01Undated

When I learned how to calculate, I stopped counting. When I learned how to smile, I stopped being afraid. When I learned to understand what my cowardice wants from me, I stopped retreating.

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote

02Undated

Emotional fog is what a man feels when he begins to answer the questions he has not yet dared to ask himself.

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote

03Undated

The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure.

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote

04Undated

I was always able to descend the uphills of my life faster than I could ascend its downhills.‬

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote

05Undated

It`s not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it`s your sadness that does it.

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote

06Undated

As long as you create, you are being created.

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote

07Undated

I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences.

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote

08Undated

Whenever man fights with somebody else he is fighting with his own truth at the same time

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote

09Undated

No matter how many hours you keep undressing yourself you will never be able to take all your clothes off until you first manage to love your nakedness.

Angelos Michalopoulos / quote