All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does. (Fernando Pessoa)

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

Fernando Pessoa

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