“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
― The Book of Disquiet
“But I am not perfect in my way of putting things
Because I lack the divine simplicity
Of being only what I appear to be.”
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
Because I lack the divine simplicity
Of being only what I appear to be.”
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.”
― The Keeper of Sheep
― The Keeper of Sheep
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