3 Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes on Desire

Nikos Kazantzakis quotes on desire

11. By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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78. A vehement eros runs through the Universe. It is like the ether: harder than steel, softer than air. It cuts through and passes beyond all things, it flees and escapes.

147. How difficult, how extremely difficult for the soul to sever itself from its body the world: from mountains, seas, cities, people. The soul is an octopus and these are its tentacles. ... No force anywhere on earth is as imperialistic as the human soul. It occupies and is occupied in turn, but it always considers its empire too narrow. Suffocating, it desires to conquer the world in order to breathe freely.