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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Age: 74 †
Born: 1883
Born: February 18
Died: 1957
Died: October 26
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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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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
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Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.
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I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .
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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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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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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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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
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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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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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Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.
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No wide road leads to God.
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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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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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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
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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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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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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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