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Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world. Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton		Sunday Nov 09, 2025
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About Nikos Kazantzakis

	Nikos Kazantzakis
	(1883-1957) Greek writer, law degree, studied philosophy under Bergson, minister of state.

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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.

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.

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

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!

As I watched the seagulls, I thought: 'Thats the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.'

Everything in the world has a hidden meaning.... Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that you understand.

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 bridges of their own.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.

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

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