“The ignorant are not blissful; they are the butt of a joke they're not even aware of.”
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“… the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
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