Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

 

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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Original: A natureza é a diferença entre a alma e Deus.
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Ibid., p. 150

 

Fernando Pessoa

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To what purpose, pray, exist all these things that be born? Whence come male and female? Whence the difference in kind of all things that be, amongst visible species, unless there be certain pre-existing and previously established Reasons and Causes subsisting beforehand, in the nature of a pattern? With regard to which, though we are dull of sight, yet let us strive to clear away the mist from the eyes of the soul.

 

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