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Affection Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one…” quote by Fernando Pessoa
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“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.”

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