Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to …

Fernando Pessoa
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Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?” And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other. ✨ The Book of Disquiet.
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