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I have to be honest and say that though I don't buy that sort of newspaper or magazine, sometimes I am curious. It's no big deal. Why wouldn't I be curious occasionally about those good-looking people who earn shitloads of money and do outrageous things with it? The curiosity lies in trying to discover why they got there, and how. We may also particularly like the work they do in their chosen career - although that seems to be less and less the case. Also, there is an element of familiarity. We know their names and faces, but little about them as people. The fact that they become familiar, makes us want to know more, and "care" to some degree, about them. It's just human nature.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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