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You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual—and thus the ...more
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Fernando Pessoa
“Let us always search for the impossible, since that is our destiny, and let us search for it by way of the useless, since no path goes by any other way, but let us rise to the consciousness that nothing we search for can be found, and that nothing along the way deserves a fond kiss or memory.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa
“I’ve created various personalities within. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incarnated in another person, who is then the one dreaming it, and not I.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

John Stuart Mill
“Never when controversy avoided the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up from its foundations, and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings.”
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Fernando Pessoa
“A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa
“To read is to dream, guided by someone else’s hand.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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