The disasters of novels are always beautiful, because the blood in them isn’t real blood and those who die in them don’t rot, nor is rottenness rotten in novels.
 Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982). copy citation

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Author Fernando Pessoa
Source The Book of Disquiet
Topic disaster blood
Date 1982
Language English
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Note Translated by Richard Zenith
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