Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any l…

Fernando Pessoa
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Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.
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We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.
Multipliquei-me para me sentir. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Walmir Ayala (2014). Antologia poética - Fernando Pessoa, p.75, Nova Fronteira
I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carcanet Press Limited
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