Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive for…

Nikos Kazantzakis
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Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). Report to Greco, p.122, Simon and Schuster
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Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). Report to Greco, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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