The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God. [...] has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. [...] My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. [...] And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met. ✨ The Last Temptation of Christ. Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Simon and Schuster, Prologue, 2012.
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