I subdue matter and force it to become my mind's good mediu… - Nikos Kazantzakis

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I subdue matter and force it to become my mind's good medium. I rejoice in plants, in animals, in man and in gods, as though they were my children. I feel all the universe nestling about me and following me as though it were my own body.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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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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نحن عندما نتمتع بالسَعادة نجِد صعوبَة في وعيها . و لكن عندما تمضي السّعادة و ننظُر خلفنا إليها نتأكد فجأة كَم كُنّا سُعداء .

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything — as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill,
cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest,
cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day
descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man
and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

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