I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of gre…

Fernando Pessoa
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2005). The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
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