Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Freedom

8 quotes

  1. Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

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

  3. Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

  4. The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  5. Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.

  6. Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

  7. If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

  8. Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

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