"I came to the sea. I was walking rapidly along the edge of the water. How disquieting it is to walk..."

“I came to the sea. I was walking rapidly along the edge of the water. How disquieting it is to walk alone by the sea. And what is this secret connection between the soul, and sea, clouds and perfumes? The soul itself appears to be sea, cloud and perfume.”

- Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946
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