the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something … - Nikos Kazantzakis

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I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

Nikos Kazantzakis

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

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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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What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.

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My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

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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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