“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“so few in reality are the true necessities of man”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
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