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Nikos Kazantzakis è stato uno scrittore e poeta greco, uno dei maggiori del XX secolo, ma anche giornalista, filosofo e uomo di stato.

✵ 18. Febbraio 1883 – 26. Ottobre 1957   •   Altri nomi ნიკოს კაზანძაკისი, نیکوس کازانتزاکس
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Nikos Kazantzakis frasi celebri

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

Nikos Kazantzakis
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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

“Behind all appearances, I divine a struggling essence. I want to merge with it.
I feel that behind appearances this struggling essence is also striving to merge with my heart. But the body stands between us and separates us. The mind stands between us and separates us.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards … and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Report to Greco

Origine: Report to Greco (1965), p. 434; in a few publications since 2008 part of this has been misattributed to Franz Kafka: "By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

“Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: "Death does not exist."”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Thus did the Holy Harlots unhinge the brains of man,
and when they met and clashed with the pure Mountain Maidens,
they raised their white arms high, their armpits smelled of musk,
and, as the rites decreed, both fought their verbal war:
"God swoops from mountain peeks to eat and play on earth;
we are his food and drink and even his sacred toys —
and learn, O sterile maids, we are his soft, sweet mates.
Let her now leave who fears to merge with her dread God!"
The scornful savage mouth of Krino flashed reply:
"We will not leave! We guard the innocent soul of man!
God is a spirit with pure white wings, a soul that sails,
light, disembodied, deep in our thoughts, without embrace.
It's we who keep the world in bloom with virgin souls!"”

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Nikos Kazantzakis

From the Bull Ritual, Book VI, line 197
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies;
though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed
by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels.
I like to name that flame which burns within me God!”

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Odysseus, Book XI, line 840
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

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

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Last Temptation of Christ

The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)

“You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.”

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In response to attempts by leaders of the Greek Orthodox church to anathematize him, as quoted in God's Struggler : Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (1996) by Darren J. N. Middleton and Peter Bien, p. 12

“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.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

On the Aegean Sea, in Ch. 2
Zorba the Greek (1946)

“Speak straight and clear! I only hear that manly prayer
which like a huge fist breaks my head against the stones.”

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Odysseus, Book VIII, line 530
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“Her green eyes fluttered swiftly twice or thrice, then glazed,
her mouth gaped open, bleating, then her jaws hung loose
and retched up all her soul in lumps of clotting blood.”

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Death of Phida, Book VIII, line 410
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“Look upon men and pity them. Look at yourself amid all men and pity yourself. In the obscure dusk of life we touch and fumble at each other, we ask questions, we listen, we shout for help.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“I've fought with men and gods, I've weighed them well and found
the sea more firm than earth, the air more firm than sea,
and man's impalpable soul still yet more firm than air!”

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Odysseus, Book XI, line 846
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“I subdue matter and force it to become my mind's good medium. I rejoice in plants, in animals, in man and in gods, as though they were my children. I feel all the universe nestling about me and following me as though it were my own body.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Only now, as we feel the onslaught behind us, do we begin dimly to apprehend why the animals fought, begot, and died; and behind them the plants; and behind these the huge reserve of inorganic forces.
We are moved by pity, gratitude, and esteem for our old comrades-in-arms. They toiled, loved, and died to open a road for our coming.
We also toil with the same delight, agony, and exaltation for the sake of Someone Else who with every courageous deed of ours proceeds one step farther.
All our struggle once more will have a purpose much greater than we, wherein our toils, our miseries, and our crimes will have become useful and holy.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill,
cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest,
cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day
descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man
and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!”

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Prayer of three revolutionaries, Book X, line 391
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue,
that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives
but bad receipts for payment in the lower world.
Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go,
all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!”

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Book IX, line 402
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“Contend with the powers of nature, force them to the yoke of superior purpose. Free that spirit which struggles within them and longs to mingle with that spirit which struggles within you.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Do you believe in dreams, Uncle Simeon? I do; I believe in nothing else. One night I dreamed that invisible enemies had me tied to a dead cypress. Long red arrows were sticking into me from my head to my feet, and the blood was flowing. On my head they had placed a crown of thorns, and intertwined with the thorns were fiery letters which said: "Saint Blasphemer." I am Saint Blasphemer, Rabbi Simeon. So you'd better not ask me anything else, or I'll start my blasphemies.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Last Temptation of Christ

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

“A vehement eros runs through the Universe. It is like the ether: harder than steel, softer than air.
It cuts through and passes beyond all things, it flees and escapes.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

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Michael Korda, in Success! (1977), p. 284
Misattributed

“I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world
and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes,
for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies,
wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.”

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Book VII, line 356
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“"Do not die that we may not die," the dead cry out within you. "We had no time to enjoy the women we desired; be in time, sleep with them! We had no time to turn our thoughts into deeds; turn them into deeds! We had no time to grasp and to crystallize the face of our hope; make it firm!" …
But you must choose with care whom to hurl down again into the chasms of your blood, and whom you shall permit to mount once more into the light and the earth.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

Origine: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 8

“BLESSED BE ALL THOSE WHO HEAR AND RUSH TO FREE YOU, LORD, AND WHO SAY: "ONLY YOU AND I EXIST."
BLESSED BE ALL THOSE WHO FREE YOU AND BECOME UNITED WITH YOU, LORD, AND WHO SAY: "YOU AND I ARE ONE."
AND THRICE BLESSED BE THOSE WHO BEAR ON THEIR SHOULDERS AND DO NOT BUCKLE UNDER THIS GREAT, SUBLIME, AND TERRIFYING SECRET:
THAT EVEN THIS ONE
DOES NOT EXIST!”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death — because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Last Temptation of Christ

The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)

“I recall an endless desert of infinite and flaming matter. I am burning! I pass through immeasurable, unorganized time, completely done, despairing, crying in the wilderness.
And slowly the flame subsides, the womb of matter grows cool, the stone comes alive, breaks open, and a small green leaf uncurls into the air, trembling. It clutches the soil, steadies itself, raises its head and hands, grasps the air, the water, the light, and sucks at the Universe.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."”

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Nikos Kazantzakis libro Zorba il greco

Origine: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 21

“Descend you weary-laden, descend in the dark earth,
help me to finish swiftly my dread master's shroud,
let each hem hold my pain, each corner hide a crow,
a lean, voracious crow to peck his heart out bit by bit.”

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Slave's prayer, Book XI, line 708
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

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