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at this moment, I cannot even remember her face but, in a deeper plane than my memory, I am sure that a sharp depiction of her has existed since time immemorial as if it were carved on stone.
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“The past is never past; it's like a distant relative who continues to age far away, as we are busy taking care of the present. It changes, it becomes bitter, it starts to resent us. Memory, she would say with Saint Augustine, is the stomach of the mind. It stores things without consuming them.”
― Indignity: A Life Reimagined
― Indignity: A Life Reimagined
“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
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“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
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