To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuri…

Nikos Kazantzakis
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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