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• I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

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  Past, Looks, Astonishment

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

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  Thinking, Yesterday, Asking

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1964). “Zorba the Greek”

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• Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

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  Prayer, Hands, Soul

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'

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  Eye, Men, Doe

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

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  Horse, Stars, Heart

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

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  Honesty, Believe, Hands

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• Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

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  Children, Eye, Reality

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.

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  Way, Endeavor, Save Yourself

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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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 absolute trust.

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  Golf, Rhythm, Seagull

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

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  Blessed, Men, Appearance

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

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  Life, Messages, Said

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• 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!

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  Knowledge, Men, Victory

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!

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• The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

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  Men, Soul, Bars

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• The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

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  Doors, Heaven, Hell

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

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  Men, Folly, Every Man

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

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  Dance, Said, Ifs

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• Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to decipher them and guess what they mean.... When you see them, you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later, too late, that you understand.

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  Stars, Animal, Men

  "Zorba the Greek".

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• What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

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  Men, Wings, Giving

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• To succeed, you must first believe you can.

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  Believe, Billiards, Firsts

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• The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

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  Life, Struggle, Heart

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

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  Hard Work, Acting, Action

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Country, Travel, Journey

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1963). “Japan, China”

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• We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

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  Dark, Ends, Abyss

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?

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  Son, Tree, Boss

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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