My Tran

“I don't know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals.”
― Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne

“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

“Life is what we conceive it to be. For the farmer who considers his field to be everything, the field is an empire. For a Caesar whose empire is still not enough, the empire is a field. The poor man who possesses an empire, the great man a field. All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must base our life's reality.

This has nothing to do with anything.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“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