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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

— Fernando Pessoa

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  1. It's certain that, when hearing from any of those people the story of their sexual marathons, a vague suspicion pervades us, at about the s…
  2. If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
  3. Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
  4. And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
  5. Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
  6. We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.
  7. Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
  8. If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monst…

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Topics in this quote

  • freedom
  • choice
  • isolation

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