Best Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis (Top 10)
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.
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The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
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I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
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You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
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How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
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More Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes
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All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.
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My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
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My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
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Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
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What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.
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