“When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my turn. As time went on I merely learned that even those who were better than the rest could not keep themselves nowadays from killing or letting others kill, because such is the logic by which they live; and that we can't stir a finger in this world without the risk of bringing death to somebody.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”
― Three Comrades
― Three Comrades
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