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“La mia anima viene da mondi migliori
ed ho un'inguaribile nostalgia delle stelle.”

“Non spero nulla | Non temo nulla | Sono libero”

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“Ancora una volta sentii quanto la cosa semplice e frugale fosse felicità: un bicchiere di vino, una castagna arrosto, un braciolo malconcio, il suono del mare. Nient'altro.”

Nikos Kazantzakis

“Sino a quando esisterà il concetto di Patria, l'uomo si comporterà come un animale selvaggio e spietato.”

Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

Zorba the Greek

“La morte non è una porta che si chiude, è una porta che si apre. Si apre e si entra.”

Nikos Kazantzakis

libro L'ultima tentazione di Cristo

“Se l’uomo non arriva al bordo del precipizio, non gli cresceranno le ali sulla schiena.”

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libro L'ultima tentazione di Cristo

“Questo operaio analfabeta, che quando scriveva spezzava le penne con la sua foga impaziente, era sopraffatto, come i primi uomini sottrattisi alla condizione di scimmia, o come i grandi filosofi, dai problemi fondamentali della vita, e li viveva come necessità immediate e urgenti. Come un bambino, vedeva anche lui tutte le cose per la prima volta, e si stupiva continuamente, e faceva domande, e tutto gli sembrava un miracolo, e ogni mattina quando apriva gli occhi e vedeva gli alberi, il mare, le pietre, un uccello, rimaneva a bocca spalancata. Cos'è questo miracolo? gridava. Che cosa vuol dire albero, mare, pietra, uccello?”

Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

Zorba the Greek

“Un tempo dicevo: 'Costui è greco, è bulgaro, è turco…'. In quell'epoca ho commesso per il mio paese certe azioni che ti farebbero rizzare i capelli in testa. Ho tagliato la gola alla gente, ho appiccato fuoco ai villaggi, ho violato le donne, ho distrutto intere famiglie. Perché? Perché quegli infelici erano turchi o bulgari. 'Va al diavolo, maiale!' mi dico talvolta quando ci ripenso. 'Va all'inferno, vecchio asino!' Adesso domando soltanto se un uomo è buono o cattivo: non mi interessa conoscere la sua nazionalità. È onesto? È bastardo? Ecco l'unica interrogazione che mi rivolgo.”

Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis: Frasi in inglese

“When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.”

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“My entire soul is a cry, and all my work the commentary on that cry.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Report to Greco

Author's Introduction, p. 15
Report to Greco (1965)

“Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

Origine: Zorba the Greek

“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Report to Greco

Origine: Report to Greco

“Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggles.”

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“The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Report to Greco

Origine: Report to Greco

“How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

Origine: Zorba the Greek

“There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

Origine: Zorba the Greek

“Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Report to Greco

"Italy", Ch. 18, p. 182
Origine: Report to Greco (1965)

“The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Report to Greco

Origine: Report to Greco

“To SEE and accept the boundaries of the human mind without vain rebellion, and in these severe limitations to work ceaselessly without protest — this is where man's first duty lies.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“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.”

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"Odyssey of Faith" in TIME magazine (6 June 1960) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,874166,00.html

“The centuries are thick, dark waves that rise and fall, steeped in blood. Every moment is a gaping abyss.
Gaze on the dark sea without staggering, confront the abyss every moment without illusion or impudence or fear. … But this is not enough; take a further step: battle to give meaning to the confused struggles of man.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“We do not only free God by battling and subduing the visible world about us; we also create God.
"Open your eyes," God shouts; "I want to see! Prick up your ears, I want to hear! March in the front ranks: you are my head!"”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark
but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge;
the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered:
"With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!"”

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Orpheus' song, Book III, line 178
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“High up where the poor sat, the people quaked with fear:
they saw the soul stretched on the ground, a votive beast
beaten by the conflicting powers of light and dark,
and their minds shook, nor knew now what great god to choose,
for comfort's road dropped to the right, the rough ascent
rose to the left, and both roads seemed to lead to God,
while at the crossroads stood the human heart, and swayed.”

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Book VI, line 242
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“How can anyone see the only way the world can be saved and not be forced to weep?”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Last Temptation of Christ

The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)

“Profound and incommensurable is the worth of this flowing world: God clings to it and ascends, God feeds upon it and increases.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
Not to look on passively while the spark leaps from generation to generation, but to leap and to burn with it!”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Behind the stream of my mind and body, behind the stream of my race and all mankind, behind the stream of plants and animals, I watch with trembling the Invisible, treading on all visible things and ascending.
Behind his heavy and blood-splattered feet I hear all living things being trampled on and crushed.
His face is without laughter, dark and silent, beyond joy and sorrow, beyond hope.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.”

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Toda Raba (1934)

“Outside the wind of Jehovah still beat on the door, trying to enter. There was no other sound. Not a jackal on the earth, nor a crow in the air. Every living thing cowered in fear, waiting for the Lord's anger to pass.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Last Temptation of Christ

Origine: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 10

“The Cry within me is a call to arms. It shouts: "I, the Cry, am the Lord your God! I am not an asylum. I am not hope and a home. I am not the Father nor the Son nor the Holy Ghost. I am your General!
"You are not my slave, nor a plaything in my hands. You are not my friend, you are not my child. You are my comrade-in-arms!
"Hold courageously the passes which I entrusted to you; do not betray them. You are in duty bound, and you may act heroically by remaining at your own battle station.
"Love danger. What is most difficult? That is what I want! Which road should you take? The most craggy ascent! It is the one I also take: follow me!”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“It is as though we had buried Someone we thought dead, and now hear him calling in the night: Help me! Heaving and panting, he raises the gravestone of our soul and body higher and still higher, breathing more freely at every moment.
Every word, every deed, every thought is the heavy gravestone he is forever trying to lift. And my own body and all the visible world, all heaven and earth, are the gravestone which God is struggling to heave upward.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Report to Greco

"My Friend Poet. Mount Athos.", Ch. 19, p. 215
Report to Greco (1965)

“How difficult, how extremely difficult for the soul to sever itself from its body the world: from mountains, seas, cities, people. The soul is an octopus and these are its tentacles. … No force anywhere on earth is as imperialistic as the human soul. It occupies and is occupied in turn, but it always considers its empire too narrow. Suffocating, it desires to conquer the world in order to breathe freely.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Report to Greco

"My Friend The Poet. Mount Athos.", Ch. 19, p. 188
Report to Greco (1965)

“Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only!
Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap
together like two mighty wings and lift him high.”

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Odysseus, Book VIII, line 770
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“Within profound Silence, erect, fearless, in pain and in play, ascending ceaselessly from peak to peak, knowing that the height has no ending, sing this proud and magical incantation as you hang over the Abyss:
I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, DEFENDER OF THE BORDERS, OF DOUBLE DESCENT, MILITANT, SUFFERING, OF MIGHTY BUT NOT OF OMNIPOTENT POWERS, A WARRIOR AT THE FARTHEST FRONTIERS, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF ALL THE LUMINOUS POWERS, THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE.
I BELIEVE IN THE INNUMERABLE, THE EPHEMERAL MASKS WHICH GOD HAS ASSUMED THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES, AND BEHIND HIS CEASELESS FLUX I DISCERN AN INDESTRUCTIBLE UNITY.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“My God and I are horsemen galloping in the burning sun or under drizzling rain. Pale, starving, but unsubdued, we ride and converse.
"Leader!" I cry. He turns his face toward me, and I shudder to confront his anguish.
Our love for each other is rough and ready, we sit at the same table, we drink the same wine in this low tavern of life.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Who holds a sword is tempted, who has youth must play,
he who does not fear death on earth does not fear God.”

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Odysseus, Book VIII, line 560
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

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