Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

In the original Portuguese

A literatura é a maneira mais agra¬ dável de ignorar a vida.

Fernando Pessoa

1935

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Literature

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1935

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Fernando Pessoa

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Pessoa, Fernando (published as Bernardo Soares). Livro do Desassossego [The Book of Disquiet]. Attica, 1982.

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