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Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die?
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 is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one.
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Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
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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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You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only.
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No wide road leads to God.
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Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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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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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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The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
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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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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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Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.
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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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Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.
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I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
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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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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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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
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