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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. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I pity the village where no one is a saint, but I also pity the village where everyone is a saint! — Nikos Kazantzakis

Life's true face is the skull. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is. — Nikos Kazantzakis

What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one! — Nikos Kazantzakis

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble. — Nikos Kazantzakis

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat — Nikos Kazantzakis

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Till now, I told myself, You have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance. — Nikos Kazantzakis

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am. — Nikos Kazantzakis

On the way between nothingness and God, we dance and weep. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I was ill before I fell ill. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels. — Nikos Kazantzakis

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces. — Nikos Kazantzakis

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God? — Nikos Kazantzakis

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope. — Nikos Kazantzakis

O brain, be flowers that nightingales may come to sing! — Nikos Kazantzakis

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand. — Nikos Kazantzakis

You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only. — Nikos Kazantzakis

If you have faith, a splinter from an old door will become a holy relic. And if you have no faith the entire holy cross will become an old door. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action. — Nikos Kazantzakis

No wide road leads to God. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting. — Nikos Kazantzakis

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world! — Nikos Kazantzakis

God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil! — Nikos Kazantzakis

Lord, bend me, or I shall rot.
Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break! — Nikos Kazantzakis

The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others. — Nikos Kazantzakis

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Leave your books alone. Aren't you ashamed? Man is a wild beast, and wild beasts don't read. — Nikos Kazantzakis

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave. — Nikos Kazantzakis

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see? — Nikos Kazantzakis

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise? — Nikos Kazantzakis

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Time is not a field, to be measured in rods, nor a sea, to be measured in miles; it is a heart beat. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will. Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ — Nikos Kazantzakis

To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will. Within even the most unworthy of men there is a servant of God, asleep. — Nikos Kazantzakis

We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists — Nikos Kazantzakis

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle — Nikos Kazantzakis

Who knows, perhaps God is simply the search for God. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it. — Nikos Kazantzakis

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. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Whoever is rich, and is a communist, is an idiot," he would say. " Whoever is poor, and is not a communist, is a bigger idiot. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. — Nikos Kazantzakis

If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen ... — Nikos Kazantzakis

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust. — Nikos Kazantzakis

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. — Nikos Kazantzakis

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet. — Nikos Kazantzakis

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go. — Nikos Kazantzakis

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Die every day. Be reborn again every day. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba sees everything everyday as if for the first time. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Inexperience loves to preach. — Nikos Kazantzakis

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked! — Nikos Kazantzakis

As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I realized that meals, too, are a spiritual service and that meat, bread, and wine are the raw materials from which spirit is formed. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Oh, yes. Wife. Children. Home. Everything. The full catastrophe. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings. — Nikos Kazantzakis

If they were to ask me what road leads to heaven, I would answer them: the most difficult! — Nikos Kazantzakis

Man cannot sprout wings unless he has first reached the brink of the abyss! — Nikos Kazantzakis

It's all because of doing things by halves and saying things by halves, being good by halves, that the world is in the mess it's in today. — Nikos Kazantzakis

At such times [drunk] all the doors of a woman's being are opened. The sentinels relax and a kind word is as powerful as gold or love. — Nikos Kazantzakis

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go. — Nikos Kazantzakis

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud? — Nikos Kazantzakis

One of man's greatest obligations is anger. — Nikos Kazantzakis

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. — Nikos Kazantzakis

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Time is round, and it rolls quickly. — Nikos Kazantzakis

No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.' — Nikos Kazantzakis

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men - never! — Nikos Kazantzakis

Go as far as you can. Go further than you can! — Nikos Kazantzakis

I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! — Nikos Kazantzakis

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting. — Nikos Kazantzakis

So few in reality are the true necessities of man — Nikos Kazantzakis

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us. — Nikos Kazantzakis

But don't you believe in anything?I exclaimed in exasperation. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Love's feet are always pleased to step on ashes. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die? — Nikos Kazantzakis

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Religion is opium for the masses — Nikos Kazantzakis