Fernando Pessoa on Nostr: nostr:note1530z6ll9nss4xyxnv3a08seqz3wd693jgn9dh4gx7u6p2pyek84szcmn3f

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Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude.

If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free.

– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet