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All Quotes by author - Nikos Kazantzakis

" All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. "

" A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. "

" A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death. "

" Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. "

" Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. "

" Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal. "

" Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. "

" Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. "

" God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil! "

" Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it. "

" I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! "

" I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability. "

" I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. "

" I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened. "

" In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through. "

" In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. "

" In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. "

" I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. "

" Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting. "

" Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls. "

" Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. "

" May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again! "

" My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry. "

" My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. "

" My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography. "

" Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us. "

" One of man's greatest obligations is anger. "

" Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. "

" Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humour, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. "

" That part of Christ's nature which was profoundly human helps us to understand him and love him and to pursue his Passion as though it were our own. If he had not within him this warm human element, he would never be able to touch our hearts with such assurance and tenderness; he would not be able to become a model for our lives. "

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