#kazantzakis

[vcb]

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

A man needs a little madness, or else… he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

[warpwoof]

Nikos Kazantzakis

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

[dulcamara-words]

I want to find a single justification that I may live and bear this dreadful daily spectacle of disease, of ugliness, of injustice, of death.

The Saviors of God, Nikos Kazantzakis

[sammeldeineknochen]

So zu handeln, als gäbe es keinen Tod, und so zu handeln, als erwarte man den Tod jeden Augenblick, ist vielleicht ein und dasselbe.

Nikos Kazantzakis: "Alexis Sorbas", S.42

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The four cornerstones of this world: bread, wine, fire, woman.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

[elladastinkardiamou]

Unpublished Novel by Greek Author Nikos Kazantzakis Goes To Press

The last novel of the  universally-celebrated Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis is set to be published for the first time — more than 60 years after his death — by the Athens-based publishing house Dioptra.

The unpublished novel, titled “Aniforos” (“Uphill”, in free translation) was Kazantzakis’s swan song, written right after his world-famous masterpiece “Zorba the Greek” (1946).

Kazantzakis wrote “Aniforos” around the time that he departed for the UK on what was meant to be his last journey.

The manuscript had been kept at the Kazantzakis museum, in the author’s home village of Mirtia, just outside Heraklion, Crete, since its rediscovery.

This is the author’s last remaining unpublished novel.

[schyuler]

“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness”

— Nikos Kazantzakis