Can you imagine Greeks being managed by Germans? Two very different cultures clashing over Greek Debt imploding and Greece becoming a Bankrupt nation. If we are to assume that the words of Zorba represent the general psyche of the Greeks, God forbid athat they are forced to me more like the hard working and frugal Germans. But this oil and water mix is being attempted with the re-financing of Greek debts...
“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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