398 Fernando Pessoa
The History of Literature
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The Push for Literature
A novel is a story of what never was. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings, a language no one uses because no one talks in verse. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. So distinctly do i feel them as people? Do they appear against the walls of my room at night, an shadows? I've written sentences whose sound read out loud or silently, impossible to hide their sound,. can only be of something that acquired absolute exteriority and a full fledged soul. He believed it, you know. This wasn't a game to him. Woulh their sound, impossible to keep them silent, lived in sharp outlines at night, in
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