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If I could take a bite of the whole worldAnd feel it on my palateI__ be more happy for a minute or so...But I don__ always want to be happy.Sometimes you have to beUnhappy to be natural...Not every day is sunny.When there__ been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.So I take unhappiness with happinessNaturally, like someone who doesn__ find it strangeThat there are mountains and plainsAnd that there are cliffs and grass...What you need is to be natural and calmIn happiness and in unhappiness,To feel like someone seeing,To think like someone walking,And when it__ time to die, remember the day dies,And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...That__ how it is and that__ how it should be...
Alberto Caeiro The Keeper of Sheep
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If I could take a bite of the whole worldAnd feel it on my palateI__ be more happy for a minute or so...But I don__ always want to be happy.Sometimes you have to beUnhappy to be natural...Not every day is sunny.When there__ been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.So I take unhappiness with happinessNaturally, like someone who doesn__ find it strangeThat there are mountains and plainsAnd that there are cliffs and grass...What you need is to be natural and calmIn happiness and in unhappiness,To feel like someone seeing,To think like someone walking,And when it__ time to die, remember the day dies,And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...That__ how it is and that__ how it should be...

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