Nikos Kazantzakis
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God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
— Freedom and Death (1956), ch. 3 (tr. Jonathan Griffin, 1956)
Nikos Kazantzakis (griechisch Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, * 18. Februarjul. / 2. März 1883greg. in Iraklio, Kreta, Osmanisches Reich; † 26. Oktober 1957 in Freiburg im Breisgau) war einer der bedeutendsten griechischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein bekanntester Roman Alexis Sorbas (1946) wurde 1964 von Michael Cacoyannis mit Anthony Quinn in der Hauptrolle verfilmt.
Belegte, datierte Zitate von Nikos Kazantzakis
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 am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.
The rosy mountain peaks laughed like high lustrous thoughts,and Helen, speechless, raised her pale hands toward the sunand joyed to feel its warm rays falling on her frozen palms.
A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery;between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls,two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!
Die sechs Teilsignale hinter dem Fame-Score und ihre Ränge in den Ranglisten.
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