“We are not simple people who believe in happiness;”

—  Nikos Kazantzakis

Toda Raba (1934)
Context: We are not simple people who believe in happiness; nor weaklings who crumple to the ground in distress at the first reverse; nor skeptics observing the bloody effort of marching humanity from the lofty heights of a mocking, sterile wit. Believing in the fight, though we entertain no illusions about it, we are armed against every disappointment.

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Greek writer 1883–1957

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