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  "path": "/2026/02/04/fernando-pessoa-sleep/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-04T22:51:51.000Z",
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  "textContent": "One of the most important things I have learned about living is that, in any life of purpose and creative vitality, you must be as religious and disciplined about your sleep as about your work. And yet one of the great self-betrayals of our culture is the way it wears the lack of sleep as a badge of honor on the lapel of the ego of achievement — the cult of productivity gone past the sacrifice of presence, sacrificing even that precious nightly absence of conscious thought and metabolic urgency necessary to recover, to reset, to recalibrate so that we… read article",
  "title": "Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours"
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