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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.

Nikos Kazantzakis

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
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Gentle Heart Men Name Season
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
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
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
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Commentary Cry Soul
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis’s tomb in Heraklion, Greece
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Fear Hope Inscriptions
Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
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Condition Life People Purpose Service
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
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
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Evil Fire Light People Thing
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
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.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
To succeed, you must first believe you can.
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Believe Billiard First Trust
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!
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Battle Life Posses Weapon
The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
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Acting Action Hard Work
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
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
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

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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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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