My Tran

“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

“Who am I behind this unreality? I don’t know. I must be someone. And if I do not seek to live, to act or to feel, it is — believe me — so as not to disturb the already laid-down lines of my false persona.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“Isn’t love at least a means of possessing ourselves through our sensations? Isn’t it at least a way of dreaming vividly, and therefore more gloriously, the dream that we exist?”
― 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