

“We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet

“I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
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I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
―

“Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet

“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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