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The Portugal Journal
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"The year is 1941.

"The work keeps growing in size in my mind, but the redaction is retarded, anemic. . . . I make a great many books in my head but I don't even take the trouble to start writing them. . . . This whole ocean of projects proves that I'm close to losing my profession.""
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