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May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!

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While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

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Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

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Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

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Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.

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We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

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What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!

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God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!

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Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

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Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Writer

Born: February 18th, 1883

Died: October 26th, 1957

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