Nikos Kazantzakis
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Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss? ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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