Fernando Pessoa: To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. — Fernando Pessoa

To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

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O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser. — Fernando Pessoa
His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's har — Fernando Pessoa
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of drea — Fernando Pessoa
God wills, man dreams, the work is born. — Fernando Pessoa
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