Accurate, honorable thoughts require tranquility, old age, a mouth full of false teeth. When you’ve got dentures it’s easy to say, ‘For shame, boys, no biting!’ But when you’ve got all thirty-two of your own teeth... A man in his youth is a wild animal, a ferocious beast who eats other men!
 Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek (1946). copy citation

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Author Nikos Kazantzakis
Source Zorba the Greek
Topic youth age
Date 1946
Language English
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Note Translated by P. A. Bien
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