“If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation… If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.”
A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 283
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