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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek happiness life sea

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek humor

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek alone bed god man shame

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now…

Nikos Kazantzakis happiness

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds…

Nikos Kazantzakis Report to Greco bird happiness

You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary — it is necessary for me to be killed and for you to betray me. We two mus…

Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ religion

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them t…

Nikos Kazantzakis education learning teaching

We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength, that we call nonexistent. Desire it, imbrue it with your blood, …

Nikos Kazantzakis Report to Greco desire reality

I felt sorry for the inhabitants and went into the forest to admonish the wolf in God's name not to eat any more sheep. I called him, he came — and do you know what his answer was?…

Nikos Kazantzakis Saint Francis prayer theodicy wolf

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek

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Sickness – Sartre’s first novel

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Hint 1 meaning

Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

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PERPLEXED state

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