"To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the……" — Nikos Kazantzakis
"To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise."
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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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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 felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it…
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More Aegean Quotes
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Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.…
— David Cameron
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.
— James Theodore Bent
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In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
— James Theodore Bent
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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is…
— Rick Riordan
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He is responsible because of the conspiracy and the plots for all that happened to the Jewish people-from the shores…
— Gideon Hausner
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