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Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world
and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes,
for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies,
wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.

— Nikos Kazantzakis The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)

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I know well that only words, that words alone,
like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)

Who holds a sword is tempted, who has youth must play,
he who does not fear death on earth does not fear God.

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938)

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Report to Greco (1965)

I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.

Toda Raba (1934)

This book is not a biography; it is the confession of every man who struggles.

The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)

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