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“The correct understanding of life, let me tell you, is love despite everything. Love despite everything, that is the aim and object of life. Love, you see, is the only thing that pays in the long run, even though it might seem a dead loss in the short run.”
Pétur Þríhross
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
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Tenho por ti uma paixão
Tão forte tão acrisolada,
Que até adoro a saudade
Quando por ti é causada
Quoted in Citações e pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2011), p. 192
Translation by John D. Godinho