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

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Source : Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

Fernando Pessoa

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“I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.”
“Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.”
“It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.”
“If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.”
“The menu is not the meal.”
“If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.”
“Where I come from, you had to be original. You had to come up with your own little moves. It doesn't matter if it's a big move. It had to be a dope original concept.”
“No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.”

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