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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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Nikos Kazantzakis
Age: 74 †
Born: 1883
Born: February 18
Died: 1957
Died: October 26
Journalist
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Nicos Kazantzakes
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What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.
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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!
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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?
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No wide road leads to God.
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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
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He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.
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The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
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Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die?
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We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity
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Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.
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God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
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O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.
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Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.
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God sends rain, but He also sends hoods and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.
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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
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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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How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies such also is the cry of freedom.
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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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Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.
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The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.
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