“Already the dandelions
Are changed into vanishing ghosts.”
Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) American writer
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“Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Passar dos fantasmas da fé para os espectros da razão é somente ser mudado de cela.
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