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Ни́кос Казандза́кис — греческий писатель, один из крупнейших авторов XX века.

✵ 18. Февраль 1883 – 26. Октябрь 1957   •   Другие имена ნიკოს კაზანძაკისი, نیکوس کازانتزاکس
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“Amid all these things, beyond all these things every man and nation, every plant and animal, every god and demon, charges upward like an army inflamed by an incomprehensible, unconquerable Spirit.
We struggle to make this Spirit visible, to give it a face, to encase it in words, in allegories and thoughts and incantations, that it may not escape us.
But it cannot be contained in the twentysix letters of an alphabet which we string out in rows; we know that all these words, these allegories, these thoughts, and these incantations are, once more, but a new mask with which to conceal the Abyss.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis книга The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“I hold the brimming wineglass and relive the toils of my grandfathers and great-grandfathers. The sweat of my labor runs down like a fountain from my tall, intoxicated brow.
I am a sack filled with meat and bones, blood, sweat, and tears, desires and visions.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis книга The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Crocodiles sweetly shut their lidded eyes, and yawned,
for the blond meat had been quite good, and in slow rains
new flesh would sprout once more and then be munched anew.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis

Book XI, line 652
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“With silent strides Odysseus then shot back the bolt,
passed lightly through the courtyard and sped down the street.
Some saw him take the graveyard's zigzag mountain path,
some saw him leap on rocks that edged the savage shore,
some visionaries saw him in the dead of night
swimming and talking secretly with the sea-demons,
but only a small boy saw him in a lonely dream
sit crouched and weeping by the dark sea's foaming edge.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis

Book II, line 457
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis книга Report to Greco

"The Desert. Sinai.", Ch. 21, p. 277
Report to Greco (1965)

“The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis книга The Last Temptation of Christ

Источник: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 18

“In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis книга Zorba the Greek

Источник: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 12

“The bodies breathe, feed, store up strength, and then in an erotic moment are shattered, are spent and drained utterly, that they may bequeath their spirit to their sons. What spirit? The drive upward!”

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Nikos Kazantzakis книга The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)

“Death gestured with his hands and bade the king thrice welcome.”

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Book VIII, line 168
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“Tomorrow, go forth and stand before the Lord. A great and strong wind will blow over you and rend the mountains and break in pieces the rocks, but the Lord will not be in the wind. And after the wind and earthquake, but the Lord will not be in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord will not be in the fire. And after the fire a gentle, cooling breeze. That is where the Lord will be.”

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Nikos Kazantzakis книга Report to Greco

This is how the spirit comes. After the gale, the earthquake, and fire: a gentle, cooling breeze. This is how it will come in our own day as well. We are passing through the period of earthquake, the fire is approaching, and eventually (when? after how many generations?) the gentle, cool breeze will blow.
"The Desert. Sinai.", Ch. 21, p. 278
Report to Greco (1965)

“Comrades, I've voyaged long and far on sea and soul,
my eyes have seen disease, gods, ghosts, and men, and yet
in no land have I seen a more false, murderous siren
than that wind-headed, babbling, blind bitch-hound called Hope!”

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Odysseus, Book X, line 892
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

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