Quote #38

Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. Everything was asleep as if the universe was a mistake.
  2. Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
  3. I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
  4. Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.
  5. The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so…
  6. It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
  7. I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, dr…
  8. As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

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