The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
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The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

— Fernando Pessoa
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More “Asceticism” Quotes

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. — Diogenes of Sinope
This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of thos — Julius Evola
It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest. — Athanasius of Alexandria, The Life of St. Anthony
[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of ete — Paul Evdokimov, Orthodoxy
[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he ha — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
Does biblical psychology, then, merely ask us to value good things a little less? Does the Bible seek a reduction of gui — Thomas C. Oden, Guilt Free
Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all prophets. Didn't th — Daniel Suelo, The Man Who Quit Money
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The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and wit — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern