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Nikos Kazantzakis has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
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The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
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What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream.…
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the…
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As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
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Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside…
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As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall…
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No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death…
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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…
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What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the…
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The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable…
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I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...
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A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.
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With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious…
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I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary…
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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
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One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by…
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I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.
— Bipasha Basu
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He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now…
— Emily Giffin
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Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
— Brandon Mull
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And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can…
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The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter…
— R.K. Narayan
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One more minute of this, and she’d be a certifiable simpleton.
— Tessa Dare
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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