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«Learn to separate the concepts of voluptuousness and pleasure. Learn to take pleasure not in what something actually is, but in the ideas and dreams it provokes. For nothing is what it is: dreams are always dreams. That's why you must touch nothing. If you touch your dream it will die and the touched object will then fill your senses.

Seeing and hearing are the only noble things in life. The other senses are plebeian and carnal. True aristocracy means never touching anything. Never go too near - that is true nobility.»

Fernando Pessoa in "The Book of Disquiet" *

*Can't stop reading it. Truly unavoidable.