My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars. - Nikos Kazantzakis

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My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

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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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كلا، لا أؤمن بأي شيء، كم مرةً يجب أن أقول لك ذلك؟ إنني لا أؤمن بشي ولا بأي شخصٍ آخر، بل بزوربا وحده. ليس لأن زوربا أفضل من الآخرين، ليس ذلك مطلقاً، مطلقاً! إنه بهيمة هو الآخر، لكنني أؤمن بزوربا لأنه الوحيد الذي يقع تحت سلطتي، الوحيد الذي أعرفه وكل الآخرين إنما هم أشباح. إنني أرى بعينيه وأسمع بأذنيه وأهضم بأمعائه وكل الآخرين، أقول لك، أشباح. عندما أموت أنا، فكل شيء يموت، إن كل العالم الزوربي سينهار دفعة واحدة!

We must understand well that we do not proceed from a unity of God to the same unity of God again. We do not proceed from one chaos to another chaos, neither from one light to another light, nor from one darkness to another darkness. What would be the value of our life then? What would be the value of all life? But we set out from an almighty chaos, from a thick abyss of light and darkness tangled. And we struggle — plants, animals, men, ideas — in this momentary passage of individual life, to put in order the Chaos within us, to cleanse the abyss, to work upon as much darkness as we can within our bodies and to transmute it into light.

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Έχουν να πουν πως άνθρωπος είναι το ζώο που συλλογιέται το θάνατο. Όχι, σου λέω εγώ. Άνθρωπος είναι το ζώο που συλλογιέται την αθανασία.

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