Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day theyβre full of meaningless activity; by night, theyβre full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things β¨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, A Factless Autobiography, number 3, translation by Richard Zenith, 1982.
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- I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays. β¨ Fernando Pessoa (2006). A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, p.15, Penguin
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