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“I am the wound and the dagger! I am the blow and the cheek! I am the members and the wheel, Victim and executioner! I’m the vampire of my own heart”

— Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) 1857

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“I think of you so much, and my life strikes me as so tragic.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. May 1922

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I am not ready for repentance; Nor to match regrets.

Hart Crane

Excerpted from "Legend" White Buildings, 1926

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“Always with sadness and difficulty, I may distance myself from the people and things I love,”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Eleni Samiou written c. July 1924

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“I am reading beautiful books. I hope continually to purify myself.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. June 1922

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“Despite my willingness to wait a lifetime, please be hasty in your journey to meet me halfway.”

— Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Battle Scars

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“This distance between my dreams and my capabilities makes me so furious that I want to die–to die from spite and also from grief.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Andonis Anemoyannis c. Feb. 1903

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“I am always filled with melancholy. It’s as if I see everything black. Everything wounds me deeply.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Harilaos Stefanidis wr. c. April 1904

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“As for me, I have one and only one wish: to withdraw from the world, to live far away in the countryside in a beautiful house, and to study and work there, all alone.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to his sister written c. March 1912

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“Our hearts, strengthened by pain and love,”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Harilaos Stefanidis wr. c. April 1904

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“You cannot understand how much patience I need in order not to lose my patience, so that I can withstand all this misfortune all by myself.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. June 1922

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The Count cordially invites you to visit him among the French gardens of his summer home at Auteuil or at 30 Champs Elysées, which ever you most desire, before you set off to enjoy the elegant and ornate theaters and chateaus of Paris, explore the arches and catacombs of Rome, the secluded caverns of Sinbad on the isle of Monte Cristo, the wonders of ancient Greece and Constantinople, and splendor of life on the high seas and the adventure awaiting on new horizons

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St. Petersburg, summer 2012 Yusupov palace, home theatre

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Braidense National Library Milan Italy

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“You eradicated all my sorrow.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. June 1922