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

I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards … and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.

Life's true face is the skull.

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.