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- Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. β¨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carcanet Press Limited
- Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.
- In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself β¦ βΆ
- I wasnβt meant for reality, but life came and found me. β¨ Fernando Pessoa (2002). The Book of Disquiet, p.276, Penguin UK
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