Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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Ibid., p. 88
More quotes by Fernando Pessoa
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
Was it worthwhile?
Everything is worthwhile
if the soul is not small.
Ah, to be you while being I!
To have your glad unconsciousness
And be conscious of it!
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