Nikos Kazantzakis said this quote

“ Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I’m told, into God.” - Zorba. ”

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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.

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Nikos Kazantzakis Happiness Life Sea

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

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Nikos Kazantzakis 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.

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Nikos Kazantzakis Alone Bed God Man Shame Sin Sleep Woman

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. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.

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Nikos Kazantzakis Bird Happiness