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Fernando Pessoa: The Architecture of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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The Infinite Solitude1 / 3

I am the outskirts of a nonexistent city, the long prologue to an unwritten book. To feel intensely is to realize that the soul cannot be contained in external reality.

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My soul is a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments strike and scrape within me.

The Art of the Flâneur2 / 3

Observe the bustling streets without participating in their vanity. The true aristocrat of the spirit is an anonymous spectator who watches the parade without joining it.

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

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