Liam Peacock

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins

“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.”
― Fernando Pessoa

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