Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someon…

Fernando Pessoa
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me. ✨ Book of Disquietude.
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But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice. ✨ Ferna … ▶
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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.
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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me. ✨ Book of Disquietude.

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