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Nikos Kazantzakis
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Nikos Kazantzakis

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: Report to Greco (1965). This quote is sometimes misattributed to Franz Kafka.
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Nikos Kazantzakis

“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 412
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Nikos Kazantzakis

“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: Report to Greco (1965)
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“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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Nikos Kazantzakis

“Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: Zorba the Greek (2012 edition), Simon and Schuster - ISBN: 9781439144664
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Nikos Kazantzakis

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: Epitaph he had ordered to be engraved on his own tomb. From a letter he wrote to Anghelakis family on 7 December 1951. As quoted in: The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis (Princeton University Press, 2011), p. 727
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“I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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Nikos Kazantzakis

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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“There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: The Last Temptation of Christ (2012 edition), Simon and Schuster - ISBN: 9781439144589
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“I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: Toda Raba (1934)
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Nikos Kazantzakis

“God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: Freedom and Death (1956)
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“We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: Freedom and Death (1956)
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“All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Source/Notes: Odyssey of Faith in TIME magazine (6 June 1960)
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