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" 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! "

Nikos Kazantzakis

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" The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. "

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" Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle. "

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