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" "Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. I'm not one of the worst, boss, nor yet one of the best. I'm somewhere in between the two. What I eat I turn into work and good humor. That's not too bad, after all!'
He looked at me wickedly and started laughing.
'As for you, boss,' he said, 'I think you do your level best to turn what you eat into God. But you can't quite manage it, and that torments you. The same thing's happening to you as happened to the crow.'
'What happened to the crow, Zorba?'
'Well, you see, he used to walk respectably, properly - well, like a crow. But one day he got it into his head to try and strut about like a pigeon. And from that time on the poor fellow couldn't for the life of him recall his own way of walking. He was all mixed up, don't you see? He just hobbled about.
Nikos Kazantzakis (18 February 1883 – 26 October 1957) was a Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.
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اننى أذكر صباح يوم اكتشفت فيه شرنقة فى قشرة شجرة ، فى اللحظة التى كانت فيها الفراشة تحطم الغلاف وتتهيأ للخروج.
وانتظرت فترة طويلة لكنها تأخرت ، وكنت مستعجلا وبعصبية انحنيت وأخذت أدفئها بأنفاسى. كنت أدفئها بنفاذ صبر وبدأت المعجزة تتم أمامى، بأسرع مما تتم عادة.
وانفتح الغلاف وخرجت الفراشة تجر نفسها جرا.
ولن أنسى مطلقا الشناعة الى شعرت بها عندئذ ، فجناحاها لم يكونا قد تفتحا بعد وراحت تحاول بكل جسدها الصغير المرتعد ان تنشرهما.وأخذت أساعدها بأنفاسى وانا منحن فوقها لكن عبثا.
كان لابد لها من نضج بطئ ولابد للاجنحة من أن تنمو ببطء تحت الشمس ، أما الآن فقد فات الأوان ، لقد أجبرت أنفاسى الفراشة على الظهور، مثخنة قبل موعدها وارتجفت يائسة وبعد عدة ثوان ماتت فى راحة يدى.
هذه الجثة الصغيرة هي أشد ما يثقل على ضميري، لأن اغتصاب القوانين الكبرى خطيئة مميتة.
يجب ألا نستعجل ، ألا نفقد الصبر ، وأن نتبع بثقة النسق الأبدى.
Every word is an Ark of the Covenant around which we dance and shudder, divining God to be its dreadful inhabitant. You shall never be able to establish in words that you live in ecstasy. But struggle unceasingly to establish it in words. Battle with myths, with comparisons, with allegories, with rare and common words, with exclamations and rhymes, to embody it in flesh, to transfix it! God, the Great Ecstatic, works in the same way. He speaks and struggles to speak in every way He can, with seas and with fires, with colors, with wings, with horns, with claws, with constellations and butterflies, that he may establish His ecstasy. Like every other living thing, I also am in the center of the Cosmic whirlpool.
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