“To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.”

—  Nikos Kazantzakis , book Zorba the Greek

On the Aegean Sea, in Ch. 2
Zorba the Greek (1946)

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