When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my ragsโwithout desiresโshall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall Iโfree, fearless, and blissfulโretire to the forest? When? When, oh when? โจ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.25, Simon and Schuster
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- The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. โจ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). Saviors of God, p.48, Simon and Schuster
- You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
- I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me. โจ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). Saviors of God, p.34, Simon and Schuster
- We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. โจ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). Saviors of God, p.29, Simon and Schuster
- Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting. โจ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.180, Simon and Schuster
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