“ Why laugh if, when you laugh, even your genuine happiness is false, since it is born of forgetting who you are? Why cry if you feel it’s of no use, and if you cry not because tears console you but because it grieves you that they don’t? ”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982). copy citation
Author | Fernando Pessoa |
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Source | The Book of Disquiet |
Topic | happiness crying |
Date | 1982 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Richard Zenith |
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