Fernando Pessoa

No man is normal, perfect — this is true.

No man is normal, perfect — this is true. A normal man were a man incapable of being affected by disease. For every disease (as I think) predisposition is necessary, a predisposition of the organism to disease. The degree of predisposition is the degree of abnormality. Every disease supposes predisposition to it, even as every real thing supposes its own personality, since it is real.

1910?

Textos Filosóficos . Vol. I. Fernando Pessoa. (Estabelecidos e prefaciados por António de Pina Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1968 (imp. 1993).

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