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More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
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!
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
