Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes - Page 7

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• You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Religious, Father, Blessing

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (2012). “The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Wine, Men, Hands

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• Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  World, This World, Hidden Meaning

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I was ill before I fell ill.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Ill

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• Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Light, Flames, Secret

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strong, Wings, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which burns within me God!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Hate, Flames, Names

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Fire, Light, Evil

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• Lord, bend me, or I shall rot.
  Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
  Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!

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  Who Cares, Too Much, Lord

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• Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Bears, Rich, Lord

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

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Soul, Cry, Commentary

  1965 Report to Greco.

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• Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Who Cares, Lord, Break

  "Report to Greco" by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by P. A. Bien, Faber and Faber Limited, (p. 16), 1973.

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• O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap,
  I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst
  in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Song, Heart, Play

  "The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel" by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar, 1938.

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• There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied." And still more: "The Son of God! And still more: God!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Kings, Son, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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