Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.
Nikos KazantzakisAs you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
Nikos KazantzakisWe come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
Nikos KazantzakisI hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece
Nikos Kazantzakis