"One’s life should be so arranged that it remains a mystery to other people, so that those who know one best in fact know one as little as anyone else, only from a slightly nearer vantage point."
Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (134)
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"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."
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"Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quiet valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one."
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"The child playing before me is an intellectual bundle of cells, but he is also a timepiece made up of sub-atomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in microscopic miniature."
Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (246)
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"The winner is the one who thinks only those thoughts that will bring him victory. The rest, the vague world of humanity in general, amorphous, sensitive, imaginative and fragile, are nothing but the backdrop before which these actors strut until the puppet show is over, the checkered board on which the chess-pieces stand until they’re put away by the one Great Player, who, deluding himself that he has a partner, never plays against anyone but himself."
Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (250)
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"To be in the turning of the worlds like the dust of flowers that an unknown wind lifts through the evening air, and that the torpor of nightfall lets fall randomly, to lie unnoticed amongst larger things."
Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (189)
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"My imaginary world has always been the only true world for me. I never knew loves so real, so full of passion and life as I did with the characters I myself created. What a shame! I miss them because, like all loves, they too end …"
Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (198)
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