"Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses……" — Nikos Kazantzakis
"Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons."
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105 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis has 105 quotes on this site.
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As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and…
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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…
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my…
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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…
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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…
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No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but…
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I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the…
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What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers…
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The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a…
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I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...
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I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it…
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More Adamantine Quotes
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not…
— William Blake
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This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
— Swami Vivekananda
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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
— Alexander Pope
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
— Edmund Spenser
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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against…
— Antony Gormley
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of diference.
— Varsha Sharma
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