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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Age: 74 †
Born: 1883
Born: February 18
Died: 1957
Died: October 26
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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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Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!
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You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.
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Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die?
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No wide road leads to God.
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Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.
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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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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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Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.
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I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
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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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I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.
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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
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If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
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