"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 . . ."
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, ch. 375
The beauty of The Book of Disquiet is Pessoa endlessly observing, reflecting, and asking questions - and leaving us to not answer them as we see fit.
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