I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a boo…

Fernando Pessoa
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). The book of disquiet: a selection, Quartet Encounters
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 100, 1982.

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