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The book of disquiet penguin modern classics ebook. Its floating boundaries expand and contract, lazily animated by the horror of making our soul a fact. The book of disquiet by fernando pessoa, jeronimo pizarro. Fernando pessoa lived between 1888 and 1935 but during his life he avoided the literary world, and indeed much of society, but wrote a vast amount of poetry and prose much of which has been published posthumously. Im trying to distract myself from the dull and constant certainty that the level of infection could have been slowed significantly if the chinese government hadnt tried.
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