Civilization-Pessoa

Tenebrionidae, Death Feining Beetle (Nr. 2), 1996 by Christopher Williams

 

 

 

 El objeto se transforma en otra cosa, porque nosotros lo hacemos cambiar. Fabricamos realidades.

 

Civilization consists in giving something a name that doesn’t belong to it and dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to the true dream does create a new reality. The object does change into something else, because we make it change. We manufacture realities.

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Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet