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I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I__e seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as __lesh and blood_. In fact, __lesh and blood_ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher__ marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.
Fernando Pessoa The Book of Disquiet
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I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I__e seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as __lesh and blood_. In fact, __lesh and blood_ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher__ marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.

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