An aesthetic quietism with regard to life, which enables us to think that the insults and humiliations inflicted on us by life and the living merely reach a contemptible periphery of our sensibility, a remote exterior of our conscious soul.
— Bernardo Soares (Fernando Pessoa), The Book of Disquiet
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* Translation by Margaret Full Costa
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A philosophy of aesthetic quietism that prevents the insults and humiliations inflicted on us by life and the living from ever becoming more than a despicable periphery around our sensibility, beyond the outer wall of the conscious soul.
— Bernardo Soares (Fernando Pessoa), The Book of Disquiet
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* Translation by Margaret Full Costa
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A philosophy of aesthetic quietism that prevents the insults and humiliations inflicted on us by life and the living from ever becoming more than a despicable periphery around our sensibility, beyond the outer wall of the conscious soul.
— Bernardo Soares (Fernando Pessoa), The Book of Disquiet