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ta dificil de ler esse aqui ein, inteligente demais pra mi

There are parts I don’t quite agree with; either from having not experienced life that way or aversion to the cynicism than from an abhorrence of his conclusions. Nevertheless I am stricken by how he continues to expresses my own thoughts so keenly. Because how can a stranger (no matter that he lived briefly in South Africa, no matter the import that brings) say what I think so accurately?

“My poor companions with their lofty dreams, how i envy and despise them!
…Like eels in a bowl they become so entangled with one another that they can never escape. They may get a mention in the newspapers…but they never attain fame.
They are the happy ones because they are given the dream […] of stupidity. But as for those, like me, who have dreams without illusions […]”