At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the …

Fernando Pessoa
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void. ✨ The Education of the Stoic. Book by Fernando Pessoa (p. 14-15),
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void. ✨ The Education of the Stoic. Book by Fernando Pessoa (p. 14-15),

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