"Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary."
— Fernando Pessoa

January 1, 1970

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Note: This has been attributed to Pessoa. Indeed, it is from Plutarch's "Parallel Lives", about Pompeus, when demanding that soldiers board the ships, when they were afraid of dying at sea.