“Creator of indifferences” is the
motto I want for my spirit today. I'd like my life's activity to
consist, above all, in educating others to feel more and more for
themselves, and less and less according to the dynamic low of
collectiveness. To educate people in that spiritual antisepsis which
precludes contamination by commonness and vulgarity is the loftiest
destiny I can imagine for the pedagogue of inner discipline that I
aspire to be. If all who read me would learn – slowly, of course,
as the subject matter requires – to be completely insensitive to
the other people's opinions and even their glances, that would be
enough of a garland to make up for my life's scholastic stagnation.
Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
translation: Richard Zenith
p. 322
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