In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of o…

Fernando Pessoa
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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.
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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

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