"It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously……" — Nikos Kazantzakis
"It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite."
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105 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
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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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Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it…
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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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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the…
— Aeschylus
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The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements…
— Empedocles
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If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground
— Raquel Cepeda
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In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
— Pindar
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Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.
— Esther M. Friesner
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Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine. Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid…
— P. C. Cast
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Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your…
— P. C. Cast
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Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start…
— Rick Riordan
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You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine." Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover?…
— Rick Riordan
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Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss…
— P. C. Cast
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Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly." Aphrodite
— P. C. Cast
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Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who…
— Rick Riordan
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