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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Age: 74 †
Born: 1883
Born: February 18
Died: 1957
Died: October 26
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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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The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
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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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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
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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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All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.
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Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
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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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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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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.
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