After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth

Fernando Pessoa
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After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 163, 2006.
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look at me move. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.293, Grove Press
All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.
To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all--it's merely to remember today what we … ▶
Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carcanet Press Limited

After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.

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