The Book of Disquiet
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The world belongs to those who feel nothing. The essential condition of the practical man is the absence of sensibility.
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I always live in the present. The future is unknown to me. The past is no longer mine.
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And I have the others in me. Even when I�m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I�m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.
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Whether there be gods or not, we are their servants.
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Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
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The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
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