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.

The Book Of Disquiet

I’m pretty sure Pessoa summarized the entire bodies of work of Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and post-structuralist philosophy in general in four sentences.

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Whoa beautifully succinct

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