There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness

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 o … ▶
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing … ▶
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.176, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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