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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Age: 74 †
Born: 1883
Born: February 18
Died: 1957
Died: October 26
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Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?
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The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.
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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.
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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.
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Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.
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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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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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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.
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Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.
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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?
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Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.
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Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.
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To succeed, you must first believe you can.
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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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There's a devil inside me which cries, You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied. And still more: The Son of God! And still more: God!
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Die every day. Be reborn again every day.
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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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You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only.
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As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
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