We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history…

Fernando Pessoa
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2005). The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 320, 2006.
I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. … ▶
Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.282, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.) ✨ Fernando Pessoa (1996). The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo … ▶

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2005). The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

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