"What first truly stirred my soul was not……" — Nikos Kazantzakis
"What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved."
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105 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
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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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