My Tran

“No one understands anyone else. We are, as the poet* said, islands in the sea of life; between us flows the sea that defines and separates us.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt that nothing would hold you back, nothing, not even me. . . . You could never see this star as I do. You don't understand: It's like the heart of a heartless flower.”
― André Breton, Nadja

“There is no body or truth we possess, nor even any illusion. We are phantoms made of lies. Shadows of illusions, our lives are hollow on both the outside and the inside.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Reality is made up of what is common and shared. That’s why we as individuals only exist in the spurious part of our sensations.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition