Writing is like paying myself a formal visit. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2017)…

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Writing is like paying myself a formal visit. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2017). The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, p.298, Serpent's Tail
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 79, 1982.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2017). The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, p.298, Serpent's Tail

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