"Once more I realized to what an extent……" — Nikos Kazantzakis
"Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards."
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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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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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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