Quote #96

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
  2. Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
  3. Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
  4. To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
  5. I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
  6. Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
  7. The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
  8. There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

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