Greek - Writer | February 18, 1883 - October 26, 1957
Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
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I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.
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My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.
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I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
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The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.
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There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.
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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 realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
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My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
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In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.
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