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Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
Approximate author period: c. 1911 AD · modern
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- Fernando Pessoa
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- Approximate author period: c. 1911 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1888 to 1935; Wikidata Q173481, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173481 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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