Enlighten the dark blood of your ancestors, shape their cri… - Nikos Kazantzakis

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Enlighten the dark blood of your ancestors, shape their cries into speech, purify their will, widen their narrow, unmerciful brows. This is your second duty. For you are not only a slave. As soon as you were born, a new possibility was born with you, a free heartbeat stormed through the great sunless heart of your race.

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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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My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as
if I was going to die any minute.

If some priest or other comes to take my confession and give me sacrament, tell him to clear out, quick, and leave me his curse instead! I´ve done heaps and heaps of things in my life, but I still did not do enough. Men like me ought to live a thousand years.

إذا أخذت عدسة مكبرة لتنظر إلى الماء الذي تشربه فسترى ان الماء مليء بالديدان , الصغيرة جداً , التي لا ترى بالعين المجردة . سترى الديدان ولن تشرب . لن تشرب وستفطس من العطش . حطم العدسة أيها الرئيس , حطمها حتى تختفي الديدان الصغيرة فوراً فتستطيع أن تشرب وترتوي !

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