Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (…

Fernando Pessoa
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Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2010). The Book of Disquiet, p.305, Profile Books
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jeho … ▶
Could it think, the heart would stop beating. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 376, 1982.
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.
Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in li … ▶

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2010). The Book of Disquiet, p.305, Profile Books

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