An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.
タグ: wanderlust, travel, sea, happiness, greece, crete

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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
タグ: sea, life, happiness
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
タグ: feet, nothing, earth, heaven
God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!
タグ: times, than, more, god
I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.
タグ: sleep, you, god, best
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
タグ: madness, person, free, never
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