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Fernando Pessoa1888–1935

Fernando Pessoa on happiness

Ah, to be you while being I!
To have your glad unconsciousness
And be conscious of it!

Fernando Pessoa

“Ela canta, pobre ceifeira” (“She sings, poor reaper”), Athena no. 3 (December 1924); tr. Richard Zenith

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