Die blinden nikos kazantzakis biography
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| Nikos Kazantzakis (Heraklion, - , Freiburg) |
Nikos Kazantzakis*.
1. This world, the post-war one, where we are living in, is so rotten, immoral and unworthy of even a moderate man, that every attempt to break it down seems- and is- sacred.
That is why today all honest people, all those who set justice, freedom and light as goals of the social life, regard the demolition of the rotten, dishonored, old foolish world as their first duty.
2. The second duty, the positive one, of every honest man today is: the effort to create a better world, where what call light or God or rise will be dominate.
This effort, the heroic one, the martyred one, has been taken and realized- this is her terrific historical mission- by Soviet Russia. This is today the creative turbine, the rotating sparkling nebula, which is constantly shaping and condensing and creating- this is now the only hope of the people- the new, better world.
And all of us are spiralling along with her.
3. For that reason every human being who is wandering in the present stench of the decay emerging from the decomposition of the bourgeois world, considers his soul and his salvation to be interconnected with Soviet Russia.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis (18 February – 26 October) was a Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.
Quotes
[edit]- I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.
- We are not simplepeople who believe in happiness; nor weaklings who crumple to the ground in distress at the first reverse; nor skeptics observing the bloody effort of marching humanity from the lofty heights of a mocking, sterile wit. Believing in the fight, though we entertain no illusions about it, we are armed against every disappointment.
- God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
- We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.
- I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
and the almond tree blossomed.
- Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
- As quoted in Reporter in Red China () by Charles Taylor
- The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the
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Excerpt from Pierre Sipriot's talk with Nikos Kazantzakis
French Portable radio (Paris), Ordinal May
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