I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

Fernando Pessoa
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I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.
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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 Educat … ▶
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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My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.
I never meant to be but a dreamer. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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