
"The countryside is always where we aren't. There, and there alone, do real trees and real shade exist.
Life is the hesitation between an exclamation and a question. Doubt is resolved by a period.
Miracles are God's laziness–or rather, the laziness we ascribe to God when we invent miracles.
The Gods are the incarnation of what we can never be.
The weariness of all hypotheses..."
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Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and writer.