Fernando Pessoa: Oh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal!

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal! — Fernando Pessoa

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal!

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Nothing could be more heartrending than this mute and motionless despair. — Émile Zola
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care. — Miguel de Cervantes
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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this — Abraham Lincoln
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Ah, dearer than my soul… Dearer than light, or life, or fame. — John Oldham
Spinoza is the Christ of philosophers, and the greatest philosophers are hardly — Benedictus de Spinoza