QUOTES by Nikos Kazantzakis
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I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will." Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ
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Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature.
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It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
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Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.
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God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. "An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God
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But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.
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The great difference between us is this: you believe you have found salvation, and believing this, you are saved; I believe that salvation doesn’t exist, and believing this, I am saved.
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What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
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—I hope you don't mind my saying so, boss, but I don't think your brain is quite formed yet. How old are you? —Thirty-five. —Then it never will be.
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My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.
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Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.
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We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists
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Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
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Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I’m told, into God.” - Zorba.
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A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You’ll ask me why. It’s because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.
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Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!
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Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.
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If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within!
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While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
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I knew that over and above the truth, there exists another duty which is much more important and much more human.
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Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.
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When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting, Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.
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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
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Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
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Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.
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The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
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Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!
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How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
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Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggles.
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There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba
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The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.
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If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.
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My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
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