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“I could feel another leaf falling from my heart, the passing of another year.”
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“Because God, you know, is a great lord, and that’s what being a lord means: to forgive!”
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“Woman is a fresh spring. You lean over her, you see your reflection and you drink; you drink until your bones crack.”
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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. And all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”
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“I've no time to lose. You're young, you can still afford to be patient. I can't. But I do declare, the older I get the wilder I become! Don't let anyone tell me old age steadies a man! Nor that when he sees death coming he stretches out his neck and says: Cut off my head, please, so that I can go to heaven! The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!"
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"No, I don't believe in anything. If I believed in man, I'd believe in God, and I'd believe in the devil, too."
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"How does a plant sprout and grow into a flower on manure and muck? Say to yourself, Zorba, that the manure and muck is man and the flower liberty.""But the seed?" cried Zorba, striking his fist on the table. "For a plant to sprout there must be a seed. Who's put such a seed in our entrails? And why doesn't this seed produce flowers from kindness and honesty? Why must it have blood and filth?"
He looked at me with his eyes wide open in amazement.
"It's a mystery," he murmured, "a great mystery! So, if we want liberty in this bad world, we've got to have all those murders, all those lousy tricks, have we? I tell you, if I began to go over all the bloody villainy and all the murders we did, you'd have your hair
stand on end. And yet, the result of all that, what's it been? Liberty!
Instead of wiping us out with a thunderbolt, God gives us liberty!
I just don't understand!"