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The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

Book by Fernando Pessoa · 18 quotes · Book Of Disquiet, Feels, Heart

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The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon Quotes

“Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.”

“For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.”