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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with “God”: the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called “man” against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.
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Darkness Men Struggle
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
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Dream Laughter Wine
As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
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Change Cutting Descendant Flow
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
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Book Entangle Ink Long
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
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Habit Satisfaction Sin
To succeed, you must first believe you can.
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Believe Billiard First Trust
The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
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Acting Action Hard Work
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
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Desire Discipline Men Strength
I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .
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Do Not Fear Heart Mind
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?
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Mean Passion Sacrifice
Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind’s supreme model.
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Desire Hero Together
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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Believe Hands Honesty
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Art Believe Creativity
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
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Commentary Cry Soul
Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
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Condition Life People Purpose Service
Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.
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Believe Heart Justice

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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