The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical…

Fernando Pessoa
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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.110, 1982.
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