Danilo Teobaldo

“Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what’s natural. Whatever I’ve enjoyed in these vast fields I’ve enjoyed because I don’t live here. One who has never lived under constraints doesn’t know what freedom is. Civilization is an education in nature. Artificiality is the path for appreciating what’s natural. We should never, however, take the artificial for the natural. It’s the harmony between the natural and the artificial that constitutes the natural state of the superior human soul.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
― Marcel Proust

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener