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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
Approximate author period: c. 1920 AD · modern
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- Nikos Kazantzakis
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- Approximate author period: c. 1920 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1883 to 1957; Wikidata Q214622, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214622 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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