There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t e…

Fernando Pessoa
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There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.282, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 100, 1982.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.282, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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