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They say it has something to do with death but mostly life and maybe the ocean and probably time, and the only way to understand saudade is to listen to fado, the Portuguese art of the sad song. Or, more accurately, songs of longing.
Saudade
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
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“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
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“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”
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“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
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