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More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
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.
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
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.
For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
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.
