“Oh salty sea, how much of your salt
are tears of Portugal!”
Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem
Poem "Mar Português", Verses 1-2
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Original: Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal
São lágrimas de Portugal!
“There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.”
— Iain Banks, book Look to Windward
Source: Look to Windward
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