It is not you talking, but innumerable ancestors talking with your mouth. It is not you who desire, but innumerable generations of descendants longin… - Nikos Kazantzakis

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It is not you talking, but innumerable ancestors talking with your mouth. It is not you who desire, but innumerable generations of descendants longing with your heart. Your dead do not lie in the ground. They have become birds, trees, air. You sit under their shade, you are nourished by their flesh, you inhale their breathing. They have become ideas and passions, they determine your will and your actions. Future generations do not move far from you in an uncertain time. They live, desire, and act in your loins and your heart. In this lightning moment when you walk the earth, your first duty, by enlarging your ego, is to live through the endless march, both visible and invisible, of your own being.

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About Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis (18 February 1883 – 26 October 1957) was a Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.

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Native Name: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης
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لقد جاء أحدهم، لا شك بأنه الرب، الرب....أم هل كان الشيطان؟ فمن يستطيع أن يميز بينهما؟ إنهما يتبادلان وجهيهما، أحياناً يصبح الرب مسربلاً بالسواد. ويشع الضياء من الشيطان، و يتبلبل عقل الإنسان. إنهما يمثلان دربين، فأيهما يسلك، و أي دربٍ يختار؟

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