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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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  Men, Sea, Dying

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

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  Pain, Struggle, Ignorance

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• We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

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  Dark, Ends, Abyss

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Heart, Mind, Do Not Fear

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

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  Rounds

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• Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

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  Looks, Alive, Life Is

  "Fictional character: Alexis Zorba". "Zorba the Greek", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

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  Mean, Wings, Earth

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Stars, Freedom, Light

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Reach what you cannot

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  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

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  Saved

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

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  Rain, Eye, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.647, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?

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  Son, Tree, Boss

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Die every day. Be reborn again every day.

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  Death, Reborn, Dies

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• Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.

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  Imagine, Invisible, Visible

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• We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity

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  Love Is, Men, Needs

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1988). “The last temptation of Christ”, Touchstone

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• By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.

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  Believe

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• I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.

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  Light, Darkness, Duty

  "Report to Greco".

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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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  Heart, Sleep, Men

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• I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.

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  Strong, Children, Believe

  "Report to Greco". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1965.

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• Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.

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  World, Mud, Spirit

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

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  Morning, Eye, Perspective

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

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  Resurrection

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Joy, Sorrow, Battle

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.

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  Heart, Ideas, Sunrise

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.

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  Night, Sight, Smell

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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