...I spent the whole morning coiled up in front of the fire, with my hands over it, eating nothing, motionless, just listening to the first rain of t… - Nikos Kazantzakis
" "...I spent the whole morning coiled up in front of the fire, with my hands over it, eating nothing, motionless, just listening to the first rain of the season, softly falling. I was thinking of nothing. Rolled up in a ball, like a mole in damp soil, my brain was resting. I could hear the slight movements, murmurings and nibblings of the earth, and the rain falling and the seeds swelling. I could feel the sky and the earth copulating as in primitive times when they mated like a man and woman and had children. I could hear the sea before me, all along the shore, roaring like a wild beast and lapping with its tongue to slake its thirst.
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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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Νίκος Καζαντζάκης
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«Ε κακομοίρη άνθρωπε», είπε δυνατά, «μπορείς να μετακινήσεις βουνά, να κάμεις θάματα, κι εσύ να βουλιάζεις στην κοπριά, στην τεμπελιά και στην απιστία! Θεό έχεις μέσα σου, Θεό κουβαλάς και δεν το ξέρεις - το μαθαίνεις μονάχα την ώρα που πεθαίνεις, μα 'ναι πολύ αργά. Ας ανασκουμπωθούμε εμείς που το ξέρουμε, ας σύρουμε μπορεί να μας ακούσουν!»
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Even the most humble insect and the most insignificant idea are the military encampments of God. Within them, all of God is arranged in fighting position for a critical battle. Even in the most meaningless particle of earth and sky I hear God crying out: "Help me!" Everything is an egg in which God's sperm labors without rest, ceaselessly. Innumerable forces within and without it range themselves to defend it. With the light of the brain, with the flame of the heart, I besiege every cell where God is jailed, seeking, trying, hammering to open a gate in the fortress of matter, to create a gap through which God may issue in heroic attack.
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