Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in… - Nikos Kazantzakis

كنت أعجب لقوته هذة وقدرته على احتقار البشر إلى هذا الحد، وفي نفس الوقت لوجود هذة الرغبة عنده في أن يعيش ويعمل معهم. أما أنا فإما أن أصبح ناسكاً، وإما أن أزين البشر بريشٍ زائف كي أستطيع تحملهم.

I put my body through its paces like a war horse; I keep it lean, sturdy, prepared. I harden it and I pity it. I have no other steed. I keep my brain wide awake, lucid, unmerciful. I unleash it to battle relentlessly so that, all light, it may devour the darkness of the flesh. I have no other workshop where I may transform darkness into light. I keep my heart flaming, courageous, restless. I feel in my heart all commotions and all contradictions, the joys and sorrows of life. But I struggle to subdue them to a rhythm superior to that of the mind, harsher than that of my heart — to the ascending rhythm of the Universe.

Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.