Alexander

“In this way, without understanding how, I entered sleep together with Christ's passion and the nightingales' warbling, just as the soul will enter Paradise.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Love responsibility. Say: It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone am to blame.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Ascetica, De redders van God en Symposium

“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.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“A fault confessed is half redressed.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek