Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a com…

Fernando Pessoa
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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (1996). The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
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