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Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent, and identical...

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: 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 realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Who holds a sword is tempted, who has youth must play, he who does not fear death on earth does not fear God.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Blessed are those eyes that have seen more water than any man! Blessed be that haughty mind that aimed at the greatest hope!

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: If you love me, be patient. Look at the trees. Are they in a hurry to ripen their fruit?

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: 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. And all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: We are not simple people who believe in happiness; nor weaklings who crumple to the ground in distress at the first reverse; nor skeptics observing the bloody effort of marching humanity from the lofty heights of a mocking, sterile wit. Believing in the fight, though we entertain no illusions about it, we are armed against every disappointment.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: To cleave that sea 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.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To take part in the Christmas festivities and, after eating and drinking well, to escape on your own far from all the snares, to have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right: and to realise of a sudden that, in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy-tale.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: 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.