Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without c…

Fernando Pessoa
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Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2002). The Book of Disquiet, p.49, Penguin UK
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