Carolin’s Reviews > The Colossus of Maroussi > Status Update

"Size is not created by mileage always. In a way which it is beyond the comprehension of my fellow countrymen to grasp Greece is infinitely larger than the United States. Greece could swallow both the United States and Europe."

"Cynical-minded people will say that it
is because Greece is a small country, because they are eager
to have visitors, and so on. I don’t believe it. I have been ina
few small countries which left quite the opposite impression
upon me. And as I said once before, Greece is not a small
country—it is impressively vast. No country I have visited
has given me such a sense of grandeur."

"One would have to be a toad, a Snail, or a slug not to be affected by this radiance which emanates from the human heart as well as
from the heavens. Wherever you go in Greece the people open up like flowers."

"I shall remember his sister Jeanne too, and other Greek women whom I met, because of their queenliness. It is a quality we scarcely ever meet with in the modern woman. Like the warm friendliness of the men this quality which all Greek women share to a greater or less degree is the counterpart, or shall I say the corresponding human virtue, which goes with the supernal light."