“We can only begin to live when we conceive life as
Tragedy.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“Life is whatever we conceive it to be.”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
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