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“Does each one of us have—at some moment lost in life—a mission to carry out? Still I refuse to take on any mission. I carry out nothing: I just live.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“Everything is as vain as stirring up cold ashes, as vague as the moment just before dawn.

And the light falls so serenely and perfectly on things, gilds them with such a sad, smiling reality. The whole mystery of the world appears before my eyes carved out of this banality, this street.

Ah, how mysteriously the everyday things of life brush by us! On the surface, touched by light, of this complex human life, Time, like a hesitant smile, blooms on the lips of the Mystery! How modern all this sounds, yet deep down it is so ancient, so hidden, so different from the meaning that shines out from all of this!”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“You’ll see – I live more in my head than anywhere else. In comparison, my real life is a dull dream.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat