Amidst our greatest happiness someone within us cries out: "I am in pain! I want to escape your happiness! I am stifling!" Amidst our deepest despair… - Nikos Kazantzakis
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Amidst our greatest happiness someone within us cries out: "I am in pain! I want to escape your happiness! I am stifling!" Amidst our deepest despair someone within us cries out: "I do not despair! I fight on! I grasp at your head, I unsheathe myself from your body, I detach myself from the earth, I cannot be contained in brains, in names, in deeds!"
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis (18 February 1883 – 26 October 1957) was a Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.
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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
هناك أسوأ ممن هو أصم , وهو الذي لا يريد أن يسمع
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أجمع أدواتي: النظر والشم واللمس والذوق والسمع والعقل. قد خيم الظلام وانتهى عمل النهار. أعود- كالخلد- إلى بيتي، الأرض. ليس لأني تعبت أو عجزت عن العمل، فأنا لم أتعب. لكن الشمس قد غربت.
