Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look a…

Fernando Pessoa
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Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look at me move. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.293, Grove Press
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