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“What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know what that elsewhere is.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Suddenly I’m all alone in the world. I see all this from the summit of a mental rooftop. I’m alone in the world. To see is to be distant. To see clearly is to halt. To analyze is to be foreign. No one who passes by touches me. Around me there is only air. I’m so isolated I can feel the distance between me and my suit. I’m a child in a nightshirt carrying a dimly lit candle and traversing a huge empty house.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“But the horror that’s destroying me today is less noble and more corrosive. It’s a longing to be free of wanting to have thoughts, a desire to never have been anything, a conscious despair in every cell of my soul’s body. It’s the sudden feeling of being imprisoned in an infinite cell. Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything?”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro