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Fernando Pessoa
“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
Fernando Pessoa

Paul Bowles
“Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.”
Paul Bowles

Walter Benjamin
“How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!”
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Walter Benjamin
“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”
Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings

Black Elk
“I knew that the real was yonder and that the darkened dream of it was here.”
Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

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