Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune t…

Nikos Kazantzakis
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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953) … ▶
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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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