“When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.”

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa - “When one of my Japanese teacups is...” 1

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