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The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

by Fernando Pessoa

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

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Amerika

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Akanksha’s Quotes

“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”
― Czesław Miłosz

tags: humility, learning, life, self-knowledge

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“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

tags: water

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“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

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“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

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“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

tags: death, life, poetry

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