Nikos Kazantzakis quotes - page 6

The worm stood straight on God's blood-splattered threshold then and beat his drum. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
And now, my gallant lads - I don't know when or how - that worm's god-slaying sword has fallen into my hands; I swear that from its topmost iron tip the blood still drips! View quote
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One day our Sodom and Gomorrah would be trampled by some all-powerful foot, and this world which laughed, reveled, and forgot God would be transformed, in its turn, into a Dead Sea. At the end of every period God's foot comes along in this way and tramples the cities of the overindulged belly, the overdeveloped mind. I felt afraid. View quote
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Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom. View quote
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Enlighten the dark blood of your ancestors, shape their cries into speech, purify their will, widen their narrow, unmerciful brows. View quote
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Where are we going? Do not ask! Ascend, descend. There is no beginning and no end. View quote
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Free yourself from race also; fight to live through the whole struggle of man. View quote
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Love responsibility. Say: "It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone am to blame. View quote
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Of the two, I choose the ascending path. View quote
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All this world, all this rich, endless flow of appearances is not a deception, a multicolored phantasmagoria of our mirroring mind. Nor is it absolute reality which lives and evolves freely, independent of our mind's power. View quote
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I am not alone in my fear, nor alone in my hope, nor alone in my shouting. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Let us transfix this momentary eternity which encloses everything, past and future, but without losing in the immobility of language any of its gigantic erotic whirling. View quote
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They have fulfilled their duty. But today we have gone beyond these needs; we have shattered this particular mask of the Abyss; our God no longer fits under the old features. View quote
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This Ecstatic, who gives birth to all things, who rejoices in them all and yet destroys them, this Ecstatic is my Son! View quote
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I do not care what face other ages and other people have given to the enormous, faceless essence. View quote
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I put my body through its paces like a war horse; I keep it lean, sturdy, prepared. View quote
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But we, O blockhead, with dogged spite and armored love shall force those deaf dark powers to grow ears and hear us! View quote
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I felt that human partitions - bodies, brains, and souls - were capable of being demolished, and that humanity might return again, after frightfully bloody wandering, to its primeval, divine oneness. View quote
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Do not say, "Draw the curtain that I may see the painting." The curtain is the painting. View quote
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I feel in my heart all commotions and all contradictions, the joys and sorrows of life. But I struggle to subdue them to a rhythm superior to that of the mind, harsher than that of my heart - to the ascending rhythm of the Universe. View quote
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What is our duty? To struggle so that a small flower may blossom from the dunghill of our flesh and mind. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. View quote
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If you are a man of learning, fight in the skull, kill ideas and create new ones. View quote
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I am an improvised bridge, and when Someone passes over me, I crumble away behind Him. View quote
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All the concentrated agony of the Universe bursts out in every living thing. View quote
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