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“I took off the mask and looked in the mirror. I was the same child I was years ago. I hadn't changed at all... That's the advantage of knowing how to remove your mask. You're still the child, The past that lives on, The child. I took off the mask, and I put it back on, It's better this way. This way I'm the mask. And I return to normality as to a streetcar terminus. 11 August 1934” — Fernando Pessoa
I took off the mask and looked in the mirror.
I was the same child I was years ago.
I hadn't changed at all...
That's the advantage of knowing how to remove your mask.
You're still the child,
The past that lives on,
The child.
I took off the mask, and I put it back on,
It's better this way.
This way I'm the mask.
And I return to normality as to a streetcar terminus.
11 August 1934