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The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

by Fernando Pessoa

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“I’m no longer myself; I am no one. I’m a red balloon caught in the boughs of a tree. I’m nothing at all.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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“I loved the math of it, three times my age, how easy it was to imagine three of me fitting inside him: one of me curled around his brain, another around his heart, the third turned to liquid and sliding through his veins.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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“was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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“Maybe that’s what this has always been about—not wanting these men but wanting to be them.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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“In order to establish a totalitarian regime, terror must be presented as an instrument for carrying out a specific ideology; and that ideology must have won the adherence of many, and even a majority, before terror can be stabilized.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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