“Liberty is the possibility of isolation.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 246
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento.
“Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.”
— Hannah Arendt, book The Human Condition
Source: The Human Condition
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