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Understood Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's…
- I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last…
- I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,…
- what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then…
- To be understood is to prostitute oneself
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