To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice…

Fernando Pessoa
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To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.251, Grove/Atla … ▶
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