The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with …

Fernando Pessoa
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 367, 2006.
Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder … ▶
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the us … ▶
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I never meant to be but a dreamer. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

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