"To know nothing about yourself is…" — Fernando Pessoa

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Ne rien savoir sur soi-même c'est vivre. Se connaître mal c'est penser.

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“To think is to destroy”

Fernando Pessoa

“The value of an idea has nothing to do with its truth.”

“Time! The present! In these, I am almost inclined to believe. I am a skeptical mystic.”

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

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