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Fernando Pessoa Quotes: All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
         

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.


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