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Fernando Pessoa Quotes: If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
         

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings


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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.



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