We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (199…

Fernando Pessoa
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (1996). The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
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Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as agains … ▶
To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors m … ▶
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connecti … ▶
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2002). … ▶
I never meant to be but a dreamer. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (1996). The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

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