Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating…

Fernando Pessoa
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2005). The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2005). The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

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