There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is…

Fernando Pessoa
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There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 328, 2006.
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