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Literature · Reflection

FERNANDO PESSOA ~ CONTEMPLATION

“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.”

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

8 June 2015

Giulio Artistide Sartorio (1860-1932)

Studio per la testa della Gorgone

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