Fernando Pessoa: "Atop the highest mountains of truth…"

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Au sommet des plus hautes montagnes de la vérité, nous sommes tous aveuglés par la neige.

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“To read is to dream with open eyes.”

Fernando Pessoa

“Everything is inertia to sadness, not to happiness. ”

“To understand, I destroyed myself. The curious will come after me to know why I disappeared.”

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