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Absolutely essential for all profoundly unhappy thinking people. I will be quoting Pessoa to the end of my days, I'm sure of it.
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“A human being possessed by a belief and not eager to pass it on to others is a phenomenon alien to the earth, where our mania for salvation makes life unbreathable... Everyone trying to remedy everyone's life. Society- an inferno of saviors!”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
“Whereas all beings have their place in nature, man remains a metaphysically straying creature, lost in Life, a stranger to the Creation.”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
“When I despise myself, I tell myself, in order to shore up my confidence, that after all, I have managed to maintain myself in being or in a semblance of being, with a perception of things that very few could have endured.”
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“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
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Stone Bridge Press was established in Berkeley, California, in 1989. We now have some 150 titles in print, covering such Japan-related areas as langua ...more
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