There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in t…

Fernando Pessoa
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There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2005). The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2017). The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, p.357, New Directions Publishing
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 320, 2006.
Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.
Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!
Everything is theater. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.263, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2005). The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

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