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Nikos Kazantzakis
Age: 74 †
Born: 1883
Born: February 18
Died: 1957
Died: October 26
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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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Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
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Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.
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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
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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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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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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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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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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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