“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”

Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.

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Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935

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