I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something.…

Fernando Pessoa
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
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Life is whatever we conceive it to be. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carcanet Press Limited
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the en … ▶
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Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

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