Florbela Espanca

Portugal
8 Dec 1894 // 8 Dec 1930
Poet

Happiness in life is already something so strict and almost conventional that taking from life a minimal portion of that shining treasure, so coveted and so chimerical, is the greatest of human follies.

Correspondence (1920)

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