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

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.

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: Nothing exists! Neither life nor death. I watch mind and matter hunting each other like two nonexistent erotic phantasms — merging, begetting, disappearing — and I say: "This is what I want!" I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free.

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

Description: Anne Sexton quote: Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: All who love have lied.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: Earth, earth riding your merry-go-round toward extinction, right to the roots thickening the oceans like gravy, festering in your caves, you are becoming a latrine.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I was spread out daily and examined for flaws.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: We all walk softly away. We would stay and be the nurse but there are too many of us and we are too worried to help. It is love that walks away and yet we have terrible mouths and soft milk hands. We worry with like. We walk away like love.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I imitate a memory of belief that I do not own.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Happiness has no succession of events, because it is a part of eternity;

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Alas that the artist, whether in poetry or whatever other material, may not content himself with the inward enjoyment of the beautiful, but must chase the flitting mystery beyond the verge of his ethereal domain, and crush its frail being in seizing it with a material grasp.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: I do detest all offices,—all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: So long as we love life for itself, we seldom dread the losing it. When we desire life for the attainment of an object, we recognize the frailty of its texture.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream,

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it;

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Life is made up of marble and mud.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: All sorts of persons, and every individual, has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.

Description: George Sand quote: We cannot tear out a single page of our lives; but we can throw the book into the fire.

Description: George Sand quote: Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.