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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
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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.
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I was ill before I fell ill.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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Who knows, perhaps God is simply the search for God.
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Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
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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.
— 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 ...
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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 asif 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.
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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.
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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.
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I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.
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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
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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.
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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!
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I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!
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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
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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?
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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