In order to understand, I destroyed myself. ✨ A Factless Autobiography…

Fernando Pessoa
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa (p. 73), 2006.
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My boredom with everything has numbed me. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2002). The Book of Disquiet, p.172, Penguin UK
I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing i … ▶
What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. ✨ The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa.
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distan … ▶
Nature is the difference between the soul and God. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). The book of disquiet: a selection, Quartet Encounters

In order to understand, I destroyed myself. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa (p. 73), 2006.

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